First (Impressionist) Avante-garde reaction

Abel Gance Jaccuse (1919)

1

La Roue (1923)
Napoleon (1934)
Lucrezia Borgia (1935), R1 13.50
2

Beethoven (1937), 13.50
Jaccuse (1938)
3


Delluc
4
La femme de nulle part (1922)
LInondation (1924)

Germaine Dulac La fte espagnole (1919)
La souriante Madame Beudet (1923)
5

(see also next section)

Marcel LHerbier
6
LInhumaine (1924)
Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
LArgent (1928)
7

La Parfum de la Dame en Noir (1931)
8


Epstein
9
La Glace trois faces (1927, 33 mins)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), 12.61
Le Tempestaire (1947, 22 mins)
(Both shorts available as part of Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema
of the 1920s & 1930s, R1 $22)

Kirsanoff
10
Mnilmontant (1926)
Brumes dAutomne (1929)
Rapt (1934)
Deux Amis (1946)
Arrire-Saison (1951)
(First two available as part of Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema of
the 1920s & 1930s, R1 $22)


Second Surrealist Avant-Garde

1
Against the stupidity of WWI and its disregard for soldiers lives.
2
Includes two shorts: "Au Secours!" (1923, 31 min.), "La Folie Du Docteur Tube" (1916, 14 min)
3
A remake made to warn of dangers of impending WWII.
4
More important for his writings on cinema, conviction concerning its future development, than his own films.
A big influence on those who followed.
5
Her masterpiece, see under Second Avant-Garde.
6
Member of first avant-garde of French cinema, influenced Resnais and new wave.
7
His masterpiece, though not always recognised as such.
8
His first sound movie that promised a career in sound, which was never to be realised.
9
Wrote Bonjour Cinma, which revealed a more technical and complete interest in the cinema than the other
impressionist avant-garde film-makers like Gance. Or perhaps Epstein stands outside of impressionism as such.
Both he and Kirsanoff are concerned, as e.g. is Eisenstein with the question of a cinematic language.
10
Estonian by birth, in France from 1923. Never came to terms with commercial demands, so that his good
work is that which he did for artistic purposes.

Germaine Dulac La coquille et le clergyman (1927)

Buuel Un chien andalou (1929)
Lage dor (1930)

Sacha Guitry Le Roman dun Tricheur (1936)
Les Perles de la couronne (1937)
Si Paris mtait cont (1954)
Napolon (1957)