Germaine Dulac, born 17 November 1882 in Amiens, France, died 20 July 1942, was a French film director and early film theorist. Famously, she directed The Seashell and the Clergyman in 1928, based on a scenario by Antonin Artaud. This film has been credited as the first surrealist film.

Bibliography

• Charles Ford, Germaine Dulac : 1882 - 1942, Paris : Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 1968, 48 p. (Serie: Anthologie du cinéma ; 31)
• Wendy Dozoretz, Germaine Dulac : filmmaker, polemicist, theoretician, 362 p., New York University, Diss., 1982

See also

• Women's Cinema

External links

• Rétrospective Germaine Dulac
• IMDb link

1882 births | 1942 deaths | French film directors

Germaine Dulac | Germaine Dulac