Brigitte Helm

The actress Brigitte Helm in Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang in 1927

Robert Bresson

From Au hasard Balthazar directed by Robert Bresson in 1966

Laszlo Moholy Nagy

Tribute to Laszlo Moholy Nagy.
László Moholy-Nagy is known for his participation in various avant-garde movements in the interwar period, in which he was associated with members of Dadaism, Constructivism, and De Stijl. He explored new photography techniques by designing photograms. At the request of the founder and director of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, the artist became a teacher there in 1923, receiving the title of Master. He left the school in 1928 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1934. There, he continued his artistic experimentation and worked in advertising. In 1937, he moved to the United States to open the New Bauhaus school in Chicago.

Vassily Kandinsky

Tribute to Vassily Kandinsky

Alla Nazimova

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé directed by Charles Bryant 1923

Edna Tichenor

The silent horror actress Edna Tichenor as Arachnida in The Show directed by Tod Browning 1927

Jean Cocteau

From The blood of a poet directed by Jean Cocteau in 1932

“The Blood of a Poet”1932
“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor and the relationship between art and dreams. One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.

Myrna Loy

The actress Myrna Loy 1930s

Luis Bunuel

The actress Lya Lys in L’âge d’or directed by Luis Bunuel in 1930

The actress Lya Lys in L’âge d’or directed by Luis Bunuel in 1930

Sphinx moth enjoying moonflowers in the garden

Myrna Loy

The actress Myrna Loy in the Barbarian directed by Sam Wood in 1933

Federico Fellini

From La dolce vita directed by Federico Fellini in 1960

Leni Riefenstahl

From Olympia directed by Leni Riefenstahl in 1936

The actors Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift

Gif by Bill Domonkos

Elizabeth Taylor

The actress Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly last summer

Paul Klee

Tribute to All the souls from Paul Klee

« One night I fall asleep with him
Though I know we aren’t allowed to
And I feel the fever burning inside me
Without having a shadow of remorse
And the dawn brings me to sleep
I do not want the sun to come

When I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him
I’ve lost my mind a little

And I’m no longer from here
Oh! I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet
When he hugs me close against him
When I feel that I fit in his life

I pray for fate to pull me through
I pray for the devil to take me
And anxiety turns its face towards me
And makes me speak its language

But when I hold his head in my hands
I swear to you I feel sadness
And I wonder
If this love will have a tomorrow
When I’m away from him
When I’m away from him

I’ve lost my mind a little
And I’m no longer from here. No I’m no longer from here
I feel the rain from another planet from another planet.  » (Véronique Sanson)

François de La Rochefoucauld

« The grace of novelty is to love what the flower is to fruit: it gives it a luster that fades easily and never returns. » (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Romy Schneider

The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964

The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964

Alla Nazimova

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

The actress Alla Nazimova in Salomé 1923

Leni Riefenstahl

The actress Leni Riefenstahl in Der heilige berg (Sacred mountain) directed by Arnold Fanck in 1926

Percy Smith

Percy Smith. Birth of a flower 1910

Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in La piscine directed by Jacques Deray in 1969

Brigitte Bardot

The actress Brigitte Bardot

Hedy Lamarr

The actress Hedy Lamarr in Ecstasy 1933

Gloria Swanson

The actress Gloria Swanson

Marilyn Monroe

The actress Marilyn Monroe, her last sitting in 1962

Octavio Paz

« The night erases nights on your face, spreads ointments on your dry eyelids, the thought burns on your forehead, and beyond thought, memory.
Among the shadows that drown you dawns on another face.
And I feel that by my side you are not the sleeper, but the little girl you were and was just waiting for me to sleep to come back and meet me. » (Octavio Paz)

Ruth St Denis

The dancer Ruth St Denis in East Indian Nautch Dance 1944

Louise Brooks

The actress Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box 1929

Dolores del Rio

The actress Dolores del Rio in the Red dance directed by Raoul Walsh in 1928

Hans Richter

From Dreams that money can buy directed by Hans Richter in 1947

Hans Richter

Hans Richter. Film study 1926

Percy Smith

Percy Smith. Birth of a Flower 1910

Percy Smith

Birth of a flower by Percy Smith 1910

Max Ernst

Tribute to Max Ernst

Sinclair Refining Company, 5000 to One, 1950s

Maya Deren

Maya Deren in Meshes of the afternoon directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid in 1943

Percy Smith

Birth of a flower by Percy Smith 1910

Brigitte Helm

The actress Brigitte Helm in Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang 1927

Martha Graham

The dancer Martha Graham from film of night journey

The actress Greta Garbo

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“Go and see the roses again. You will understand that yours is unique in the world.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Tribute to Venus de Milo. Gif by Bill Domonkos

Tribute to Paul Klee

The actress Kate Winslet

The actress Keira Knightley as Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in Colette 2018

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic directed by James Cameron in 1997

« Pour qu’un amour soit inoubliable, il faut que les hasards s’y rejoignent dès le premier instant. » (Milan Kundera)

Edgar Degas

Tribute to Edgar Degas

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski in Paris, Texas directed by Wim Wenders in 1984

Romy Schneider

The actress Romy Schneider in L’enfer directed by Henri Georges Clouzot in 1964

« The sirens have an even more lethal weapon than their song, namely their silence… someone may have escaped their song; but their silence, certainly never. » (Franz Kafka)

Tilly losch

The dancer Tilly Losch. Dance of her hands 1930-1933

Vassily Kandinsky

Tribute to Vassily Kandinsky

Danse serpentine 1908

Piet Mondrian

Tribute to Piet Mondrian

Vassily Kandinsky

Tribute to Vassily Kandinsky

Mary Wigman

The dancer Mary Wigman performing Pastorale in 1929

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Tribute to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Dolly sisters 1925

Gustav Klimt

Tribute to Gustav Klimt

Juliette Binoche

The actress Juliette Binoche in Trois couleurs : Bleu in 1993

Pierre Auguste Cot

From Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883). Portrait of a young woman

Jean Cocteau

From La belle et la bête directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946

From A page of madness directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1926

Paul Klee

D’après Paul Klee

The actress Anna Karina

Marilyn Monroe

The actress Marilyn Monroe in her last sitting in 1962

Mary Binney Montgomery

The dancer and actress Mary Binney Montgomery in Emlen Etting’s experimental film Oramunde 1933

Greta Garbo

The actress Greta Garbo

« …Alone and resilient in my wounds facing the future..borders are my prison…  » (DantéBéa)

Iris

Iris… The mystical flower rich in symbolism…

Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Animated adaptation of the English nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle in A Fantastic Tale (1978) by Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Kiki de Montparnasse

Kiki de Montparnasse in The ballet mécanique directed by Fernand Léger in 1924

Loïe Fuller

The dancer Loïe Fuller 1900

From Los motivos de Berta directed by José Luis Guerín in 1984

Kiki de Montparnasse

Kiki de Montparnasse in The ballet mécanique directed by Fernand Léger in 1924

Teinosuke Kinugasa

From A page of madness directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1926

Marlene Dietrich

The actress Marlene Dietrich

Arthur Edward Pillsbury. Roses 1925

Arthur Edward Pillsbury. Roses 1925

From A midsummer night’s dream directed by William Dieterle et Max Reinhardt in 1935