Cynthia Cruz

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At the age of five, with his sister Marie-Ange.
Around 1920 at twenty-four.
Around 1920 at his sister’s wedding.
As Cecco, in Marcel Vandal’s film Graziella (1925).
As Gringalet, in Luitz-Morat’s film Le Juif errant (1926).
As Marat, in Abel Gance’s Napoléon (1926–1927).
As Marat.
As the Intellectual, in Léon Poirier’s film Verdun, visions d’histoire (1928).
As the monk Massieu, in Carl Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928).
As the father in his play, Les Cenci, produced in 1935 by the Theater of Cruelty.
On the grounds of the asylum in Rodez, with Dr. Ferdière in May 1946.
Self-portrait (December 17, 1946).
His room in the clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine.
In his room, shortly before his death.

CYNTHIA CRUZ is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently Back to the Woods (Four Way Books, 2023). Her two collections of critical essays are Disquieting: Essays on Silence (Book*hug, 2019), an exploration of the concept of silence as a form of resistance; and The Melancholia of Class (Repeater Books, 2021), an exploration of melancholia and the working class. Cruz coedits the multidisciplinary online journal Schlag Magazine.