Friday 19 October – Sunday 11 November 2007

Germaine Dulac (1882–1942) was a key figure in the French avant-garde during the 1920s, and its only female director. Considered the first feminist filmmaker, Dulac was an influential and vigorous film theorist and promoter who viewed film as a new art form for conveying ideas and images impossible to communicate through other media. Working across narrative, avant-garde, and documentary genres, Dulac used femininity as a strategy of representation to explore women's fantasies and desires. These two programmes explore one of the most important voices in the 20th century’s early experimental cinema.

• Germaine Dulac: Programme Two   Sunday 11 November 2007
• Germaine Dulac: Programme One   Saturday 10 November 2007