Episode Details

The affinity Enri Ceballos has for dance is intensely represented by his picks for 1900, four of which feature the sheer joy of human movement. Both in front of and behind the screen, these films (all French and helmed by women!) also represent the diversity of gender and sexuality at play, along with sound and color technologies, in early cinema's history.

Enri is the General Director for the Mexico International Silent Film Festival, a PhD student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a member of Women and Film History International.

Films and resources mentioned:

• La concierge (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Danse directoire (1900) - Marguerite Vrignault
• Dance of the Seasons: Winter (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Gavotte (1900) - Marguerite Vrignault
• Pierrette's Escapades (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1900) - Clément Maurice
• Hamlet (1900) - Clément Maurice
• "Do You Believe in Fairies? Cabbages, Victorian Memes, and the Birth of Cinema: Seeing Sapphic Sexuality in the Silent Era" - Kiki Loveday