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    Disque 957

    Germaine DULAC 1929 France Experimental b/w 6min French 16mm
    This film, along with two other short films, can be interpreted as visual notations. Classified as "abstract" by the majority of the film critics in a rather superficial way, these works are in fact "pure cinema" experiences. In other words, an film that has renounced dialogues in order to uniquely create an iconic language as a vehicle of sensations and emotions, just like the music. Germaine Dulac often compared this musicality to the so-called "art of spiritual nuances" , giving each cinematic form and each luminous zone the value of an acoustic vibration.

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    Germaine DULAC

    Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) was an important avant-garde filmmaker and theorist of the 1920s whose work has been vastly underappreciated in this country. This program of silent films contains three short abstract works whose structure is based on musical models, one a Debussy arabesque. The fourth, The Smiling Madame Beudet, often considered her greatest film, is a probing psychological study of a married woman's emotional and sexual frustrations. Debussy's music is an actual element in the plot and takes on a crucial symbolic role.

    Germaine DULAC

    1929 Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque 阿拉伯花飾

    1928 Princesse Mandane 芒達妮公主

    1928 Spanish Dance 西班牙舞蹈

    1928 The Seashell and the Clergyman貝殼與僧侶

    1927 Invitation to a Journey旅行的邀請

    1922 The Smiling Madame Beudet微笑的布迪夫人

    1922 The Death of the Sun 太陽之死

    1919 The Cigarette

    1915 Les soeurs enemies

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