Dans le silence d'une mer abyssale

Charlie Chaplin is a household name, but virtually no one knows his mentor Mabel Normand, who cast him in his first role. The movies of pioneering women filmmakers such as Alice Guy, who made the first ever fiction film, and Germaine Dulac, who brought surrealism to the screen even before Luis Buñuel, have disappeared from the bucket list of films to watch before dying. What’s worth remembering? Who decides what is worthy of remembrance? Through film excerpts from movies directed by women filmmakers between 1896 and 1940, Juliette Klinke questions her references in cinema, what she has been taught and passed on and figures out a new future of film history which includes also women filmmakers.

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