Loie Fuller (1901)

Original title

Loïe Fuller

Directed by

Segundo de Chomón

Genre

silent film, dance film

Country

France

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dancer moves in a flowing, sculptural costume. The film captures her shapes and shadows in a black-and-white or hand-colored image.

silentexperimentaldreamlikeflowingelegantsurrealdelicatevisually abstract

What happens

Loie Fuller is a 1902 French short black-and-white silent film. The creator is listed as "anonymous" and is undated by the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation. Some copies have been stencil-coloured with Pathécolor process in Julienne Mathieu and Segundo de Chomon's Barcelona workshop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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