Germaine Dulac

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Germaine Dulac (17 November 1882, Amiens, France - 20 July 1942, Paris) was a French film director and early film theorist. Famously, she directed The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), based on a scenario by Antonin Artaud. This film has been credited as the first surrealist film, released shortly before Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.

[edit] Bibliography

• Charles Ford, Germaine Dulac : 1882 - 1942, Paris : Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 1968, 48 p. (Serie: Anthologie du cinéma ; 31)
• Wendy Dozoretz, Germaine Dulac : Filmmaker, Polemicist, Theoretician, (New York University Dissertation, 1982), 362 pp.

[edit] See also

• Women's Cinema
• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920's and 1930's (DVD Collection with Seashell and the Clergyman)
• Avant-garde
• Experimental film

[edit] External links

• Rétrospective Germaine Dulac
• Germaine Dulac at the Internet Movie Database
• The Seashell and the Clergyman at the Internet Movie Database