Program 7: Âme d’artiste
Germaine Dulac
August 24 - 30, 2018
This backstage comedy, about the relationship between a fragile, sensitive poet and an independent actress, is an important work in Dulac’s pursuit of a “pure cinema” that took full advantage of the medium’s eminently modern and expressive aesthetic tools.
Âme d’artiste (1925, 88m, 35mm)
This backstage comedy was an important work in Dulac’s tireless pursuit of a “pure cinema,” an approach to the medium that sought to demonstrate that it had more modern and expressive tools at its disposal than any other art. Adapted from a play by Danish poet Christian Molbech, its narrative concerns the drama that ensues amid an encounter between a fragile, sensitive poet and an independent actress, effectively reversing conventional gender dynamics. Dulac includes newsreel footage and deploys a typically audacious array of visual effects to once again put the modern age onscreen.
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