Olivier Beaufret

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.

A young man walks through the residential neighborhood of Levittown, the first american suburbia, while enacting a monologue made out of oddly familiar lines. As the sun sets, a young woman in a nearby house is confronted with an invisible menace.