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Alice Guy Short Films

Alice Guy  •   France  • ​  1898 - 1907
50 mins  •  HD   •   B&W   •   PG
​
 ​In French with English subtitles

Thirteen short films by the world’s first woman film director, who started out in 1894 as a secretary at the Gaumont motion picture company in Paris.

​“There is a decidedly modern sensibility to her films, as she playfully discovers comic and dramatic potential in the social mores of gender and class.” – Kino Classics
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREENPLAY: Alice Guy
PRODUCTION CO: Gaumont


REVIEWS

“After years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blaché is now being recognised for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films – and efficient her methods – she eventually became the studio’s head of production. During cinema’s first decade, the multi-talented Guy-Blaché experimented with colour and synchronised sound (decades before these technologies would be perfected) and cultivated such diverse genres as slapstick comedy, social realism, historical epic, and fantasy. Though rooted in the theatrical style of the Belle Époque, there is a decidedly modern sensibility to her films, as she playfully discovers comic and dramatic potential in the social mores of gender and class….”

– Kino Classics


FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Nelson   
Tuesday, 2 August, 6:00pm

Wellington
Monday, 22 August, 6.15pm


​Canterbury  
Monday 29 August,, 7:00pm

Hamilton     
Monday, 5 September, 8.00pm

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 14 September, 6pm

​
Whanganui     
Monday, 26 September, 7:00pm

​Dunedin     
Wednesday, 5 October, 7:30pm

Auckland     
Monday, 17 October, 6:00pm

Palmerston North
Wednesday, 26 October, 6pm



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