In connection with the Family Cinema Course — Gulliver, we invite the duo Von Calhau! for a film-concert that will use music and sound to transport us through the themes covered in the second chapter of the course: from early “talking machines” to voyages through sound. With the sonic tricks of Marta Ângel and João Alves — who have developed a prolific collaboration in both music and visual art — we will discover work by Alice Guy Blanché, the first woman filmmaker in history and one of the first people to realise the narrative potential of cinema, making her a fundamental figure in the early days of the film industry.

Sage-femme de première classe, Alice Guy Blanché

France, fic., 1902, 4'

The Fairy Spring, Segundo de Chomon

France, fic., 1906, 3’

Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique, Unknown author

France, fic., 1900, 1’

Chien jouant à la balle, Alice Guy Blanché

France, fic., 1905, 2’

Les chiens savants, Alice Guy Blanché

France, fic., 1902, 3’

Danse serpentine, Alice Guy Blanché and Zecca Ferdinand

France, doc., 1900, 2’

Comment monsieur prend son bain, Alice Guy Blanché and Zecca Ferdinand

France, fic., 1903, 1’

La charité du prestidigitateur, Alice Guy Blanché

France, fic., 1906, 3’

A Sticky Woman, Unknown author

France, fic., 1906, 3’

La Glu, Louis Feuillade

France, fic., 1907, 4’

Alice Guy tourne une phonoscène, Unknown author

France, doc., 1907, 2’

Le piano irrésistible, Louis Feuillade

France, fic., 1907, 6’

The Detective’s Dog, Alice Guy Blanché

USA, fic., 1912, 7'