Self
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.
Self
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.
Producer
A patchwork of the first animated movies from the collections of La Cinémathèque française : Stroboscopic Discs (1833), Zoetropes (since 1867), Reynaud's Praxinoscope (1878-1879), plates of Muybridge and Anschütz (1880-1890), an unseen Marey's chronophotography (1889), Chromolithographs films (since 1897), including one inspired by the second Georges Méliès' film, "Une séance de prestidigitation" (1896), with a photographic version, unseen until now.
Himself
Este documentário parte da descoberta e restauração de um raro e desconhecido carretel de fotografias reproduzidas de um filme mutoscópio, produzido em 1901, em Londres, sobre Santos Dumont (1873-1932). A obra aborda aspectos históricos e artísticos dos primórdios do cinema (pré-cinema, cinema de atrações) e do cinema de reapropriação de arquivo (found footage, filme de reciclagem), por meio de entrevistas, documentos, metáforas visuais e da articulação própria de um ensaio poético.
