Still from Germaine Dulac, The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, 40 min.)
Experimental Cinema of Germaine Dulac and Maya Deren
Learn about avant-garde films by women in this screening of Germaine Dulac’s The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928, 40 min.), considered one of the first Surrealist films, and Maya Deren’s A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945, 3 min.), which features the dancer Talley Beatty in a magisterial cinematic interpretation of dance. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Body in Pieces, these silent films feature innovative special effects that present the human form as physically fractured and fragmented across time.
A discussion following the screening with Dana Ostrander, assistant curator of modern art; Lionel Cuillé, teaching professor in French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences and director of French Connexions; and Victor Putinier, PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures, will explore these two key figures in the development of experimental cinema and proto-feminist practice.
Free and open to the public with complimentary popcorn. Registration is requested.