Top-Tier Alternatives In the Shadow of Princesse Mandane: Cult Guide

Dir: Germaine Dulac

An avant-garde dance short, integrating slow motion, and cutting between the movements of a ballerina, close-ups of machinery and images of nature.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

Visual structure composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman's smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A destitute, drunk woman appears to yearn for the life of a streetwalker.

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.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Celles qui s'en font perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

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

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.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Âme d'artiste perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

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

Dir: Germaine Dulac

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

The two gypsy lovers of Gorky's story upend traditional gender roles and point to the ideal of Socialism.