Germaine Dulac<\/a>, a pioneer in avant-garde film and a key figure in cinematographic surrealism, the Museu T\u00e0pies has organised a debate centred on exploring the symbolic, aesthetic and political realm of the feminine imagination in surrealism.<\/p>\nFrom a critically rigorous and poetically attuned perspective, the event constitutes a space for reflection on the forms in which female artists and thinkers have intervened in, expanded or subverted the codes of surrealism, often conceived from a masculine perspective. Debate participants will consider questions such as the construction of the body and desire, feminine authorship within the avant-garde and the relationship between cinema, dreams and symbolic liberation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Rebellious Image: Germaine Dulac and the Feminine Imagination in Surrealism\u201d is an invitation to rethink avant-garde narratives on the basis of gesture, symbolism and rupture, while likewise paying attention to how an avant-garde movement that was able to transform the invisible into image and desire in language, might resonate in our day.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nPROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
6 pm. Presentation of the session, by the Museu T\u00e0pies<\/p>\n
6.10 pm. Tami Williams, \u201cGermaine Dulac and Long Impressionist Cinema\u201d<\/p>\n
6.40 pm. Julia Ram\u00edrez Blanco, \u201cPoetics of the Anti-Fascist Body\u201d<\/p>\n
7.10 pm. Elena Castro C\u00f3rdoba, \u201cDance, Images, Dance!\u201d<\/p>\n
7.40 pm. Debate with Tami Williams, Julia Ram\u00edrez Blanco and Elena Castro C\u00f3rdoba, moderated by Bruna Lo Biundo<\/p>\n
20.15 h. Closing<\/p>\n
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PARTICIPANTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Tami Williams <\/strong>is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has been president for two mandates of Domitor \u2013 International Society for the Study of Early Cinema (2015\u20132023). She is the author and editor of various books on early cinema and modern cinema, including Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations<\/em> (2014), Global Cinema Networks<\/em> (2018), Germaine Dulac: What Is Cinema?<\/em> (2019, awarded the CNC Film Book Prize in 2020), Provenance and Early Cinema<\/em> (2021) and Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema<\/em> (2024). A specialist in intermediality and intercultural exchange, she has organised international retrospectives in leading institutions, including La Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que fran\u00e7aise, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Library of Congress and the Lincoln Center for the Arts. She is a member of the committee of Women and Film History International.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Julia Ram\u00edrez Blanco<\/strong> is a Ram\u00f3n y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research connects art history, utopian studies and activist movements. She has published various monographs, including Artistic Utopias of Revolt<\/em> (Palgrave, 2018), 15M. El tiempo de las plazas<\/em> (Alianza, 2021), Amigos, disfraces y comunas. Las hermandades de artistas del siglo <\/em>xix<\/em> (C\u00e1tedra, 2022) and La ciudad del Sol. Le mouvement 15M entre formes et performances<\/em> (\u00c9ditions Lorelei, 2023). She is also a book and journal issue editor, as with Los ismos del siglo <\/em>xxi<\/em> (Alianza, 2025), with A. M. Guasch. She has done research residencies in New York, Paris, Nantes, Amiens and Princeton. With Lise L\u00e9richomme and Sally Bonn, she has co-directed the research project and exhibition Grande R\u00e9volution Dom\u00e8stique-Guise<\/em>, on feminist utopias at the Familist\u00e8re de Guise, France. She was on the editorial board of The Society for Utopian Studies and is a member of the international research group Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA). Currently she is researching environmental utopias in the face of climate crisis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Elena Castro C\u00f3rdoba <\/strong>has a PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master in Gender, Media & Culture from Goldsmiths University, London, and a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has been an FPU pre-doctoral researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she developed a thesis on queer and affective temporalities applied to the archive, and is co-founder of the artistic collective Ontolog\u00edas Feministas, specialised in virtuality and practices with a feminist perspective. She is currently a lecturer at EINA and a teaching collaborator at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She researches and writes on contemporary feminism, the archive, temporal politics and their interrelationship with contemporary aesthetics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Bruna Lo Biundo <\/strong>is a researcher specialised in the representation of women in the period between the wars, with particular interest in surrealism and the feminist film pioneer Germaine Dulac. With a PhD in French Literature from the University of Palermo, she has worked as a curator and head researcher in institutions such as the M\u00e9morial de la Shoah and La Contemporaine (Nanterre University), as well as projects on female immigrants and refugees in France in the 20th century. She is co-founder of the association Past\/Not Past, and is currently preparing a documentary exhibition on Germaine Dulac. Since 2024, she has coordinated the Master in Audiovisual Heritage at the Institut National de l\u2019Audiovisuel, where she also teaches on curating and participative practices.<\/p>\nFilm still from La Coquille et le Clergyman<\/em> (The Seashell and the Clergyman), 1928.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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