Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology
Year
2017
Description
Includes 25 films from 1902–43 by Dorothy Arzner, Madeline Brandeis, Mary Ellen Bute, Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, Alice Guy-Blaché, Marie-Louise Iribe, Mabel Normand, Claire Parker, Olga Preobrazhenskaia, Dorothy Davenport Reid, Lotte Reiniger, Leni Riefenstahl, and Lois Weber.
Production Team
Flicker Alley
Genre
Feature Film Short Film Comedy Documentary Drama
Content Notes
Disc 1: Les chiens savants (Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs; 1902; 4 min.; silent) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; Une histoire roulant (A Rolling Story; 1906; 2 min.; silent) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; La barricade (1907; 5 min.; silent) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; Falling Leaves (1912; 14 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; Making an American Citizen (1912; 14 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912; 13 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Alice Guy-Blaché; Suspense (1913; 10 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Lois Weber; Discontent (1916; 25 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Lois Weber and Alan Siegel; The Blot (1921; 93 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Lois Weber; and Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914; 12 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Mabel Normand. Disc 2: The Star Prince (1918; 58 min.; silent with English intertitles) directed by Madeline Brandeis; La Cigarette (1919; 50 min.; silent with French intertitles) directed by Germaine Dulac; La souriante Mme. Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet; 1922; 42 min.; silent with French intertitles) directed by Germaine Dulac; and The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927; 88 min.; silent with Russian intertitles) directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaia. Disc 3: Le roi des Aulnes (The Erlking; 1929; 45 min.; French with English subtitles) directed by Marie-Louise Iribe; Harlequin: A Silhouette Film (1931; 25 min.; animated) directed by Lotte Reiniger; The Stolen Heart (1934; 10 min.; animated; German with English subtitles) directed by Lotte Reiniger; Papageno (1935; 11 min.; animated; German with English subtitles) directed by Lotte Reiniger; Une nuit sur la Mont Chauve (A Night on Bald Mountain; 1933; 9 min.; animated) directed by Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff; The Woman Condemned (1934; 64 min.) directed by Dorothy Davenport Reid (as Mrs. Wallace Reid); Tag der Freiheit (Day of Freedom; 1935; 17 min.; German with English subtitles) directed by Leni Riefenstahl; Parabola (1937; 17 min.) directed by Mary Ellen Bute; Spook Sport: A Graveyard Gambol (1939; 8 min.; animated) directed by Mary Ellen Bute; Dance, Girl, Dance (excerpt; 1940; 4 min.) directed by Dorothy Arzner; and Meshes of the Afternoon (1943; 14 min.; silent) directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hackenschmied.
Language
English for most films; some films are silent with English or French intertitles; others are in French or German with English subtitles
Media Format
3 DVDs (652 min.) and 3 Blu-ray discs (652 min.)
Type
Color or black and white
Additional Content
Individual films are also available as streaming videos. The DVD/Blu-ray disc combo set includes the booklet "A Camera of One's Own: Early Women Directors (27 pp.) by Kate Saccone.
