I evoke a dancing woman. A woman? No. A bouncing line with harmonious rhythm. I evoke a luminous projection on veils ! Precise matter! No. Fluid rhythms. Why should one disregard, on screen, the pleasure that movement brings us in the theatre? Harmony of lines. Harmony of light. Lines, surfaces, volumes evolving directly, without the artifice of evocation, in the logic of its forms, dispossessed of any overly human sense, allowing an elevation towards the abstract, thus giving more space to sensations and to dreams : integral cinema. —Germaine Dulac
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Germaine Dulac Director
United States release April 19, 1998 · Produced in France · Original title Thèmes et variations
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Original title
Thèmes et variations
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
France · January 1, 1928
Theatrical
United States · April 19, 1998
Limited theatrical · American Museum of the Moving Image
United States
September 30, 2003 · Limited theatrical · Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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