LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN

by Germaine DULAC

1927 / 16 mm or 35 mm or DVD or Beta Numérique / n&b / sil / 40' 00

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2008 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

« We should not look for logic or a sequence which is not present in thing, but interpret images which develop in the direction of their essential intimate significance which goes from outside to the inside. LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN does not tell a story but develops a series of mental states which are deduced from each other as thought is from thought. » - Antonin Artaud

NB: Two films conceived by Nicolas Droin and Prosper HILLAIRET about "The Seashell" are available on demand:

- SURIMPRESSIONS, 2009, 33 min, black and white
“In Surimpressions, four commentators take a multi-faceted view (history, aesthetics, feminism), of Germaine DULAC’s The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le Clergyman) based on the screenplay by Antonin Artaud, from its genesis, to its place in the history of cinema.”
Participants: Alain Virmaux, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Tami Williams, Prosper HILLAIRET

- TUMULTES AUX URSULINES, 2008, 15 min, colour
“A revisiting of the disturbances during the Premiere of the film at the Studio des Ursulines on 9 February 1928, when the Surrealists, lead by Breton and Aragon, caused an uproar during the screening.”
Narrated by Alain Virmaux, interview: Prosper HILLAIRET

Exclusive North America distribution : Jon Gartenberg Media : http://www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/index.html

5 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	Beta Numérique (PAL / SECAM)
original format	35 mm
speed	25 ips
screen	4/3 (vidéo)
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	202,00 €

distribution format	DVD (PAL)
original format	35 mm
speed	25 ips
screen	4/3 (vidéo)
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	202,00 €

distribution format	16 mm 1 reel
original format	35 mm
speed	18 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	202,00 €

distribution format	35 mm 2 reels (816 meters)
original format	35 mm
speed	18 ips
screen	1,33 - muet
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	202,00 €

distribution format	35 mm 2 reels
original format	35 mm
speed	18 ips
screen	1,33 - muet
sound	sil Aucun
rental fee	202,00 €

FUTURE SCREENINGS

date	place	city	country	agenda

26/05/2012	Videoex	Zürich	SUISSE	détails
19/06/2012	Fundación Marcelino Botín	Santander	ESPAGNE	détails
31/07/2012	Fundación Marcelino Botín	Santander	ESPAGNE	détails

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