http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Screenings</font></p> <div><p>Please note that the film program for <i>Alice Guy Blach&eacute;: Cinema Pioneer</i> changes on a weekly basis. All films are silent unless otherwise indicated. The screenings include films projected in a number of formats, including Beta-SP video, high-definition digital video (Blu-ray), and 16mm film. Due to restrictions on screenings of archival film material, 35mm films will be screened on Sunday only; these programs also feature live musical accompaniment.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:08:32 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Screenings http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Screenings <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0004/1542/mme_a_des_envies_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p>This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the films of Alice Guy Blach&eacute; (1873&ndash;1968), a key but unsung figure of the early years of cinema, the first woman director, and the first woman to establish and preside over her own film studio. Between 1896 and 1920, first in France and then in the United States, she wrote, directed, supervised, and/or produced more than 1,000 films. These ranged from short films of less than a minute&rsquo;s duration to full-length multi-reel features and include some hand-tinted in color, and more than one hundred films with synchronized sound made between 1902 and 1906, some twenty years before sound revolutionized motion pictures as we now know them.</p><p>A screenwriter as well as director, she worked in a remarkable variety of genres including comedies, westerns, dramas, detective stories, and a biblical epic, as well as making films based on literary classics and theatrical productions. Alice Guy (as she was known at Gaumont Film Company), made her first story film at a time when the earliest motion pictures were used in the service of science and selling cameras&#8212;a time when the notion of motion pictures as a form of popular entertainment was not yet on the horizon. Radically shifting the parameters of cinematic imagination, production, and distribution, Blach&eacute; participated in every aspect of the evolving motion picture business, and her careers in the two countries where cinema was born testify to her extraordinary accomplishments.</p><p>The exhibition is organized by Whitney curator-at-large Joan Simon. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, published by Yale University Press in association with the Whitney, with contributions by noted film scholars Jane Gaines, Alison McMahan, Charles Musser, Alan Williams, film historian and preservationist Kim Tomadjoglou, and the show&rsquo;s organizer, Joan Simon.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:32:37 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Events</font></p> <div><p><i>Note: All events for </i>Alice Guy Blach&eacute;: Cinema Pioneer<i> are now past.</i></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:46:59 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Events http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Events <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Images</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Images"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0007/9424/a_house_divided_400.jpg" /></a></p> Whitney Museum of American Art Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:31:21 -0500 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Images http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AliceGuyBlache/Images