Editor's Top Picks Sharing the Atmosphere of La fête espagnole: Cult Guide

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A famed London actress has an ardent playwright admirer who is married.Dulac contrasts the women,s willingness to sacrifice with the men,s possessiveness.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Danses espagnoles perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The only existing cinematographic document about the important bailaora from Barcelona Carmencita García, who performs two dances in front of the audience: "Córdoba", by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, and some sevillanas with castanets.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Smiling Madame Beudet perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In this avant garde short subject, the director gives us her visual impressions from listening to two pieces by Chopin: the 4tn and 6tn preludes.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Record 957 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A serial (known in French as a cine-roman) in which the adventures are told from the perspective of the kidnapped heroine.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Princesse Mandane perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Germaine Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially inquisitive film tells the tale of an independent, sexually liberated woman who is torn between her husband and her lover. Controversial at the time of its release, Antoinette Sabrier finds Dulac using her bold sense of visual rhythm to achieve a complex portrait of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and a nuanced investigation into human intimacy, with her characters' emotions expressed through then-innovative cinematic techniques such as slow motion and associative montage.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

An actress has been so hardened by youthful disappointment that she becomes a deliberate heartbreaker with men.