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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.

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.

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

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 Âme d'artiste 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

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

Dir: Germaine Dulac

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Gossette 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

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 The Seashell and the Clergyman perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Germaine Dulac

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

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.