- Mardou Fox
Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 by Georges Méliès
Music by Air
I went to sleep last night with a candle burning, the light in the room flickered and crackled like an old film. Outside the glass doors in my room I could see the tall tree tops swaying furiously with the wind, threatening to fall with me in to sleep, in to dreams. In my mind, drugged by sleep, the trees seemed very much alive with limbs like jaws leaning over my cot. It is this same ability to imagine and to dream that has inspired many great artist to draw the imagination down into reality. Georges Méliès, the director of Voyage Dans La Lune (Voyage to the moon) devoted his life to transforming dreams into life. He was perhaps the first wizard of cinema, introducing techniques such as multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Méliès began as an illusionist, performing magic to small audiences through out France. After realising the limitations of live stage performance, he decided to take his art form to the screen where his magic could live and grow infinitely. One hundred years later, Méliès's magic still contains the same power, allowing us to fall deep into the imagination and collect the items of psychic wonder that he once planted.
Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 by Georges Méliès
Music by Air
I went to sleep last night with a candle burning, the light in the room flickered and crackled like an old film. Outside the glass doors in my room I could see the tall tree tops swaying furiously with the wind, threatening to fall with me in to sleep, in to dreams. In my mind, drugged by sleep, the trees seemed very much alive with limbs like jaws leaning over my cot. It is this same ability to imagine and to dream that has inspired many great artist to draw the imagination down into reality. Georges Méliès, the director of Voyage Dans La Lune (Voyage to the moon) devoted his life to transforming dreams into life. He was perhaps the first wizard of cinema, introducing techniques such as multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Méliès began as an illusionist, performing magic to small audiences through out France. After realising the limitations of live stage performance, he decided to take his art form to the screen where his magic could live and grow infinitely. One hundred years later, Méliès's magic still contains the same power, allowing us to fall deep into the imagination and collect the items of psychic wonder that he once planted.