p 　　Though Delluc 三九 s career was short-lived, it burst vigorously 七 films in 四 years that it forever left its imprint on french cinema history, and they rightly honoured him by giving the annual Prix Delluc to the best French film of the year He was responsible for the creation of influential cinema nbsp journals like Le Journal du Ciné-Club and Cinéa, founding numerous film societies, writing countless articles and coining the term quot cineaste quot Delluc believed that films should be set in the natural without elaborate posturing, and characters should be portrayed in an intimate way where the past and present, illusion and reality can be correlated, all considered to be avant-garde at its time He died only a few weeks after the shooting of The Flood at the age of 三三 p