International in scope, this groundbreaking collection
features over 10 hours of material, comprised of 25 films spanning
1902-1943, including many rare titles not widely available until now,
from shorts to feature films, live-action to animation, commercial
narratives to experimental works. Directors include Alice Guy Blaché,
Lois Weber, Mabel Normand, Madeline Brandeis, Germaine Dulac, Olga
Preobrazhenskaia, Marie-Louise Iribe, Lotte Reiniger, Claire Parker,
Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), Leni Riefenstahl, Mary Ellen
Bute, Dorothy Arzner, and Maya Deren.
These
women were technically and stylistically innovative, pushing the
boundaries of narrative, aesthetics, and genre. Going back to the
beginning of cinema, this collection makes visible the tremendous
directorial contributions women made all around the world. Beautifully
restored in high definition, Early Women Filmmakers
features new scores by Sergei Dreznin, Frederick Hodges, Tamar Muskal,
Judith Rosenberg, and Rodney Sauer and the Mont Alto Motion Picture
Orchestra.
This anthology is dedicated to the
memory of David Shepard (1940-2017), without whom these films - along
with countless others - would simply not have been made available in
such beautifully-restored editions. The collection represents one of
David's final produced works, completed in collaboration with several
film archives, including the French National Center for Cinematography
and the Moving Image (CNC), the Film Studies Center at the University of
Chicago, and the Library of Congress.
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