These types of cinematic-shenanigans were used a great deal by the pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, in her now legendary short spoof, Avenue de l’Opéra (1900). In Avenue, Guy-Blaché’s filmstock is reversed, so that people, carriages, and even music move backwards to reveal a topsy-turvy world. But where Guy-Blaché’s plot-motivations were as ambiguous as she was,...
Alice Guy Blache festival 2019
Untold story of Pamela B Green with films of Alice Guy Blache 2019
