Germaine Dulac

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Germaine Dulac,
around 1920

Germaine Dulac (born November 17, 1882 in Amiens , France , † July 20, 1942 in Paris , France, actually Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider ) was a French film director and film theorist .

Life and accomplishments

Germaine Dulac, daughter of a cavalry captain, grew up with her grandmother in Paris. In 1905 she married the engineer and short story writer Marie-Louis Albert-Dulac, who persuaded her to devote herself to journalism. She became an editor at La Française , where she wrote, among other things, theater and film reviews.

Dulac made her debut as a director with the film Les Soeurs ennemies from 1915. She turned to novel means of artistic expression; With her films La Fête espagnole  (1920) and Madame Beudets Sunny Smile  (1922) she was, alongside Louis Delluc, the most important exponent of French film impressionism in the early 1920s. In the film Die Invitation to Travel  (1927) she not only worked as a director, but also as a screenwriter and film producer. Her film The Shell and the Cleric  (1928) based on a screenplay by Antonin Artaud is considered the first surrealist film to be made before the film An Andalusian Dog  (1928).

Filmography (selection)

As a director

As a screenwriter

  • 1924: Âme d'artiste
  • 1927: The invitation to travel (L'Invitation au voyage)
  • 1927: Antoinette Sabrier

Fonts

  • Prosper Hillairet: Germaine Dulac: Ecrits sur le cinéma: 1919-1937. Editions Paris expérimental, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-9500635-5-1 . (New edition as EBook 2018 ISBN 978-2-912539-55-7 )
  • Germaine Dulac: The essence of film: The visual idea (1925), From sensation to line (1927), The music of silence (1928), Independence (1931), The cinema of the avant-garde (1932). In: Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek eV and Kinothek Asta Nielsen eV (Ed.): L'invitation au voyage: Germaine Dulac (Kinemathek series, issue 93). Friends of the German Kinemathek, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-927876-17-8 , pp. 51-57, 58-61, 63-66, 67-69, 70-80.
  • Germaine Dulac: The film, the art of intellectual nuances (1925), aesthetics, obstacles, integral cinegraphy (1927), commentary [on Fescourt] (1927), commentary [on Divoire] (1927). In: Margrit Tröhler, Jörg Schweinitz (Ed.): The time of the picture has dawned! French intellectuals, artists and film critics on cinema. A historical anthology 1906-1929. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89581-409-9 , pp. 410–413, 446–463, 471–473, 477–479.
  • Germaine Dulac: WRITINGS ON CINEMA (1919-1937) , Editions Paris expérimental, Paris 2018 (EBook)

Secondary literature

  • Charles Ford: Germaine Dulac: 1882-1942 (Anthologie du cinema; 31). Avant-Scène du Cinéma, Paris 1968.
  • Wendy Dozoretz: Germaine Dulac: filmmaker, polemicist, theoretician . Diss., New York University, 1982.
  • Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek eV and Kinothek Asta Nielsen eV (ed.): L'invitation au voyage: Germaine Dulac (Kinemathek series, issue 93). Friends of the German Kinemathek, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-927876-17-8 .
  • Jörg Gerle: Review of: La Coquille et le Clergyman / L 'Invitation au Voyage. In: film-dienst No. 12 (2005).
  • Tami Williams: Germaine Dulac: A cinema of sensations. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2014, ISBN 978-0-252-03847-1 .

DVD publications

  • Germaine Dulac. Three films by the French silent film pioneer. absolut Medien, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89848-865-5 . (contains Madame Beudet's Sunny Smile (1922), The Invitation to Travel (1927) and The Shell and the Cleric (1928)).
  • Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology . Flicker Alley, Los Angeles 2017. (contains Germaine Dulac's La Cigarette (1919) and La Souriante Mme. Beudet (1922))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology on DVD Beaver, accessed on January 18, 2018 (review with full details of the films included)
personal data
SURNAME Dulac, Germaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and film theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Amiens , France
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1942
Place of death Paris , France