Outsider Cinema

Theme and Variations

A film by Germaine Dulac

  • 1928
  • 9 min (approx.)
  • 35mm, black and white, silent
A still from Theme and Variations.

The dancer Lilian Constantini's movements are cut against close-ups of machines and shots of nature, as a theme and its variations. Dulac's working title was 'Visual theme, cinegraphic variation'.

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Public domain in the US; copy posted by Stephania Amaral

Theme and Variations

Public domain in the US; copy posted by Stephania Amaral. Open on YouTube

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