Roll in black cardboard cut and parchment paper
16 x 22 cm (closed)
16 x 270 cm (opened)
This book was presented in 2022, in a different format, at the XII Art Exhibition of La Garriga. Cinema and women. Its original title, Una càmera pròpia, refers to Virginia Woolf’s work A Room of One’s Own. The book highlights the role of women in cinema beyond that of artist or vedette, using the format (the silhouette) of the animation pioneer who preceded Walt Disney, Lotte Reiniger, who serves as the entry point to this group of women filmmakers—many of them pioneers in their own fields (animation, documentary, propaganda, social, experimental…)—forgotten in the tunnel of time.
Inspired by Lotte Reiniger's animations.
The cast, in order of appearance, is:
Lotte Reiniger (1899) _ precursor of animation in movie format
Alice Guy (1895) _ pioneer of the use of cinema to create stories
Lois Weber (1879) _ pioneer of social movies
Elena Jordi (1882) _ first Catalan cinema director
Germain Dulac (1882) _ pioneer of experimental cinema
Dorothy Azner (1897) _ the only woman director in Hollywood's Golden Age
Maria Forteza (1913) _ first woman to make sound cinema in Spain
Esfir Shub (1894) _ pioneer of the found-footage technique
Leni Riefenstahl (1902) _ pioneer of propaganda films
Virginia Woolf (1882) _ author of A Room of One’s Own, which inspired the title of my book
Selected and exhibited work for Miralibro 2026. Artist’s books exhibition. Cinema.
