14 Facts About Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood.

Germaine Dulac is best known today for her Impressionist film, La Souriante Madame Beudet, and her Surrealist experiment, La Coquille et le Clergyman.

Germaine Dulac was born in Amiens, France into an upper-middle-class family of a career military officer.

Germaine Dulac's father, Pierre-Maurice Saisset-Schneider, was a captain of cavalry in the Second Army Corp.

Since her father's job required the family to frequently move between small garrison towns, Germaine Dulac was sent to live with her grandmother in Paris.

Germaine Dulac soon became interested in art and studied music, painting, and theater.

Germaine Dulac found time to work on the editorial staff of La Fronde, a radical feminist journal of the time.

Germaine Dulac began to pursue her interest in still photography, which preceded her initial entry into filmmaking.

Germaine Dulac taught film courses at the Ecole Technique de Photographie et de Cinematographie on the rue de Vaugirard.

However, when Germaine Dulac got to her door, she panicked and interviewed Noaille's valet de chambre.

Germaine Dulac became interested in film in 1914 through her friend, actress Stacia Napierkowska.

Germaine Dulac produced several films between 1915 and 1920, all directed by Dulac and written by Hillel-Erlanger.

Germaine Dulac continued her career in filmmaking, producing both simple commercial films and complex pre-Surrealist narratives such as two of her most famous works: La Souriante Madame Beudet and La Coquille et le Clergyman.

The exact chronology of Germaine Dulac's oeuvre has not yet been established.