Germaine Dulac was not really making a film which was ahead of it's time. surrealism was being used throughout the film makers of Europe and even being experimented with by those in the united states during this time period. Those that have studied that time period will agree that there was a lot of drug use back then and a lot of the directors were doing experimentation along these lines. Personally i don't believe that Germaine Dulac was using drugs but she was really interested in the surrealistic approach to film making.
I have watched this short several times and am still having a difficult time getting my head around what is going on, i cannot decide if the priest is suppose to be having a dream or on some kind of drugs or what, or if she made the film just in truest sense of the surrealistic tone of this movie to make the viewer question and wonder about it.
We may never know.
I have watched this short several times and am still having a difficult time getting my head around what is going on, i cannot decide if the priest is suppose to be having a dream or on some kind of drugs or what, or if she made the film just in truest sense of the surrealistic tone of this movie to make the viewer question and wonder about it.
We may never know.