A retrospective of Alice Guy's films will be shown tonight (September 23) as part of the Woman with a Movie Camera series at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. The 90-minute program includes:
THE DRUNKEN MATTRESS / LE MATELAS ALCOOLIQUE (France, 1906, 7 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. Print courtesy of the Library of Congress.)
THE STRIKE (U.S., 1912, 12 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. Print courtesy of the British Film Institute.)
THE NEW LOVE AND THE OLD (U.S., 1912, 5 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. Print courtesy of the John E Allen Archive at the Library of Congress; lab work undertaken by Cinema Arts Inc.)
THE ROADS THAT LEAD HOME (U.S., 1913, 10 min, 35mm, b&w, silent. Print courtesy of the John E Allen Archive at the Library of Congress; lab work undertaken by Cinema Arts Inc.)
THE LOST GARDEN: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (Dir. Marquise Lepage, Canada, 1995, 53 min, digital). Looks at the life and times of Guy-Blaché (1873-1968), arguably the first narrative filmmaker in the world. Lepage intercuts clips from her films with revealing excerpts from TV interviews with Guy-Blaché herself, photographs, reminiscences by family members, and interviews with film historians.