I evoke a dancer! A woman? No. A bouncing line with harmonious rhythms. On veils I evoke a luminous projection! Something precise! No. fluid rhythms. The pleasures given by movement in the theatre, why neglect them on the screen? Harmony of lines. Harmony of light. Lines, surfaces, directly evolving volumes, without the artifices of evocations, in the logic of their forms, stripped of all human sense in order to lift themselves better towards abstraction and in order to give more space to sensations and dreams: the integral cinema.

Germaine Dulac, 1927