The prolific French director, writer, and producer Germaine Dulac wore masculine-styled blazers, button-down shirts, and bowties and had a series of female lovers who were instrumental in her film work—introducing her to filmmaking, co-founding a film production company with her, and working as her directorial assistant. Dulac made thirty films between 1915 and 1936, ranging from surrealist avant-garde films to commercial features and newsreels. Her “masculine attire and habits…were noted by her contemporaries,” observes her biographer Tami Williams, and cross-dressing was a repeated motif in her work. Already in the first decades of the medium, gender-nonconforming people had an important impact on this new popular art.