Garden

Mary Beth and I went up to Crosstown yesterday for Memphis Women in Film's screening of The Lost Garden: the Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché. This was a documentary about what it says it's about. Didn't really know anything about her, but she's the first woman filmmaker as well as the first person to make narrative films. She started in France and at a point moved to the U.S. and started her own film company. She was one of the biggest names in film way back in the day (of course back when everything was soon forgotten). And often later records credited her films do dudes that didn't even make movies. She made something like 700 movies (mostly short as she worked before movies got long like they are today) and only 50 survive now (at least when the documentary was made, there may be about a hundred found now according to hasty internet searches). Anyway, it was an interesting documentary. Then there was work today and I worked and stuff and that's about it for now.