Sunday, June 26, 2011

Alice Guy: Programme 2: Comedy Is the Source of All Pleasures

Alice Guy: Programma 2: La comicità è la fonte di tutti i piaceri. Sunday, 26 June 2011 at 10.00, Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni (Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato). Earphone commentary in Italian and English. Grand piano: Donald Sosin.

Catalogue: "Alice Guy directed and produced a range of early film genres at Gaumont and like her contemporaries, she copied, borrowed and learned technique, staging, and story lines from the leading French producers, the Lumières, Georges Méliès, and Pathé Frères.""

"Throughout her career, comedy played a special role in Guy’s intriguing repertoire of situational stories, many of which centered on women’s conflicting and irrepressible sexual and material desires, expressed and displayed through unconventional, transgressive and disruptive behavior. A range of props, including dolls, pet animals, wigs, and disguises, in addition to the woman’s body, serve as instruments and devices for motivating narrative action. In this selection of comedies, Guy explores traditional gender roles though the themes of birth, sex, marriage, and oral pleasure.""

[Not shown: SAGE FEMME DE PREMIÈRE CLASSE. FR 1902. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: First-class Midwife; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. ca. 5’ a 16 fps. B&w. From: Library of Congress.]

LES RÉSULTATS DU FÉMINISME. FR 1906. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: The Results of Feminism; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. ca. 7’ a 16 fps. B&w. From: Gaumont Pathé Archives. -  AA: Comedy. The reversal of roles.

FEMME COLLANTE. FR 1906. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: The Sticky Woman; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. ca. 2’ a 18 fps. B&w. From: CNC Archives Françaises du Film. - AA: Comedy. Sticky kisses.

DIE MAUS IN DER KRINOLINE. FR 1906. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: La Crinoline; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. 36 m. ca. 2’. B&w. From: Filmarchiv Austria. - AA: Pregnant.

MADAMA DES ENVIES. FR 1906. D: Alice Guy (?); Romeo Bosetti (?). P: Gaumont. 35 mm. 4’ a 16 fps. B&w. From: BFI – National Archive.

INTERVENTION MALENCONTREUSE. FR 1902. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: Untimely Intervention; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. 2’. B&w. From: Lobster Films. - AA: There is an inheritance if you marry.

[added:] FAUST ET MEPHISTOPHELES. FR 1903. D: Alice Guy. P: Gaumont.

MATRIMONY’S SPEED LIMIT. US 1913. D: Alice Guy Blaché. Cast: Marion Swayne, Billy Quirck, Flora Finch; P: Solax. 35 mm. 354 m. ca. 11’ a 18 fps. B&w. English intertitles. From: Library of Congress

LE MATELAS ALCOOLIQUE. FR 1906. D: Alice Guy. T. alt.: Le Matelas épileptique; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. 245 m. 11’ a 18 fps. B&w. From: Library of Congress – Women Film Pioneers Project Collection.

LA HIERARCHIE´DANS L’AMOUR / [the title of the print:] The Hierarchy of Love. FR 1906. T. alt.: The Hierarchy in Love; P: Gaumont. 35 mm. 3’. B&w. From: BFI – National Archive.

I did not take proper notes of this screening.

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