Alice Guy

Alice Guy is a filmmaker, screenwriter and production director who played a decisive role in the early development of narrative cinema. Active from the late nineteenth century, she was instrumental in shaping cinema as both a language and an industry. Drawing on everyday life, literature and popular tales, she developed a mode of staging that combines humour, narrative and experimentation with special effects techniques. Her work is characterised by a close attention to social relations and female figures, which she reconfigures beyond the norms of her time.