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The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché

1995 52 min
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This feature documentary is a portrait of Alice Guy-Blaché, one of cinema's most fearless pioneers. A filmmaker before the word even existed, Guy-Blaché made her first film at the end of the last century, when cinema was still brand-new. After directing, producing and writing more than 700 films, she slipped into oblivion. This film rescues her brave and shining memory.

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The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché

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This feature documentary is a portrait of Alice Guy-Blaché, one of cinema's most fearless pioneers. A filmmaker before the word even existed, Guy-Blaché made her first film at the end of the last century, when cinema was still brand-new. After directing, producing and writing more than 700 films, she slipped into oblivion. This film rescues her brave and shining memory.

Women - Portraits Foreign Countries Film and Video Arts All subjects
  • director
    Marquise Lepage
  • script
    Marquise Lepage
  • producer
    Josée Beaudet
  • camera
    Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
  • animation camera
    Jacques Avoine
    Raymond Dumas
    Lynda Pelley
    Pierre Landry
  • sound
    Richard Besse
    Marie-France Delagrave
  • editing
    France Pilon
  • sound editing
    Claude Langlois
  • re-recording
    Serge Bovin
    Jean Paul Vialard
  • music
    Robert M. Lepage
  • participation
    Adrienne Blaché-Channing
    Roberta Blaché
    Nicolas Seydoux
    André Gaudreault
    Alan Williams
    Alison McMahan
    Anthony Slide

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Education

Ages 15 to 17
School subjects
Arts Education - Visual Arts Family Studies/Home Economics - Feminism Media Education - Film and Video Production
Discuss with students the concept of silent movies as forerunners of modern-day films. Compare and contrast both types of cinema. Have students create a timeline together, using the Internet, of Alice Guy-Blache’s prolific career in film production. Account for New York as the first site for motion picture production in America. Research Solax Studios, its development and subsequent demise. Suggest reasons for history’s disregard of Alice GuyBlaché’s films, both in Europe and America.

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