Cinemuze / Germaine Dulac and feminist film
Feel the heartbeat of historyTo mark Gaasbeek Castle's centenary as a museum and as part of the new exhibition "Rebel Echoes", you can enjoy the muse of the seventh art in the Knights' Hall; cinema. One Saturday evening every month, a film linked to the life and work of Marquise Arconati Visconti or the year 1924, when the castle officially became a museum, will be screened in the Knights' Hall of the castle.
Before each screening, Wouter Hessels, film curator of Gaasbeek Castle, will give a bilingual introduction. He studied Romanic languages and is film historian (RITCS & INSAS) with a great passion for French, Italian and Belgian cinema. This comes in handy, because the residences and properties of Marquise Arconati Visconti were in France, Italy and of course... Gaasbeek.
Germaine Dulac and feminist film
Marie Peyrat was a very headstrong, intellectual and independent woman with a particular passion for politics. And the same can be said of Germaine Dulac (1882-1942). Dulac was a journalist, cinephile, film critic and film maker. She came up with particularly innovative ideas in cinematic impressionism and surrealism. In 1923, she directed the silent film La souriante Madame Beudet. The film tells the story of a married woman. Trapped in a petty-bourgeois marriage to a tyrannical husband, she searches for a way to change her life...
Before the film, there will be an illustrated, bilingual lecture on the life and work of Germaine Dulac (1882-1942), a film maker who successfully reinvented herself time after time. This silent film has a musical accompaniment on guitar.
Practical information:
» €10 / €5 students
» 28/09/2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Knights' Hall.
» Introduction by Wouter Hessels (in Dutch/French).
» Screening of La souriante Madame Beudet (1923) with accompanying music on guitar.
