Alice Guy

Editorial Design
Project Overview
Making the booklet, I was very careful to include various moments of silence or a metaphor for being silenced. The cover of the booklet is partly removable, as to demonstrate that you, the reader, are capable to undo the silence. This happens again in the first page, as you turn it, it reveals the picture without the “shh” and reveals a quote that stated why Alice Guy was, and is, important for the history of cinema. This first few moments (also one that happens in page 25) I atribute to authoritarian silence. It’s forced and it exists because of how the hierarchy worked in the late 1800s and early 1900s. If Alice wasn’t working as a secretary at Gaumont, she would never have been able to achieve her goals, just because she was a woman.
The next silent that is present, is the inconsequent one; it appears in page 8, as the text is hidden and it can only be read as you turn the page, revealing a sitting Alice Guy. It is also shown on page 28 and 36, as the reading is obstructed by something as simple as a picture and a pamphlet, forcing the reader to have an extra step to get the full text.
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I interpreted the hospital silence a social construct, everyone knows not to be loud in that place without needing a warning. However, walking through a quiet hospital can be unsettling, it can feel like something is wrong. This silence appears in pages 16 and 26. The text in those pages seem cropped, but they are not. The text is simply put right next to the pictures to create the effect.
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To go along with the booklet, I made a poster. The front of it has the same image as the first page of the booklet. It was made in a way that the further back you get from it, the more you can see Alice Guys mouth. This was made to symbolise that her work only started to get recognition years after her death. On the other side of the poster, there are QR codes with movies she wrote, directed, produced and acted in. This is my way of inviting the reader to go beyond the text and learn more about her work. The booklet uses only two colors, black and purple. Purple is the color of feminism, creativity and wisdom, an appropriate color to introduce Alice Guy.