Woman with a Movie Camera: Alice Guy Blaché Symposium
Trailblazer, inventor, and innovator, Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) was cinema’s first female director and first female film studio owner. Her legacy extends to groundbreaking filmmaking techniques, novel approaches to narrative, and original directorial style. This symposium explores that legacy.
Session Three: Emerging Media: Now and Then features Rick Altman, University of Iowa and Virginia Heffernan, New York Times and is moderated by Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of American Art
Trailblazer, inventor, and innovator, Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) was cinema’s first female director and first female film studio owner. Her legacy extends to groundbreaking filmmaking techniques, novel approaches to narrative, and original directorial style. This symposium explores that legacy.
Session One: Alice Guy Blaché as Film Pioneer features Terry Lawler, New York Women in Film and Television and Drake Stutesman and is moderated by Joan Simon, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Trailblazer, inventor, and innovator, Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) was cinema’s first female director and first female film studio owner. Her legacy extends to groundbreaking filmmaking techniques, novel approaches to narrative, and original directorial style. This symposium explores that legacy.
Session One: Alice Guy Blaché as Film Pioneer features Alison McMahan, Homunculus Productions, LLC and Richard Koszarski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and is moderated by Antonia Lant, New York University.
