MELIES CATALOGUE
VISUAL ESSAYS N°2

by Al RAZUTIS
1973 / 16mm / tinted b&w / silent / 1S / 7' 30




This burning celluloid montage film presents the mythic iconography of the films of Georges Méliès -- a dreamlike terrain, a grab-bag of magician's surprises, a cornucopia of players that proceed from the imagination of that "magician" of cinema - announced by the opening motif, "the expanding head."

These incidents are presented/framed within the graphic form of burning frames, each image-shot erupting and being displaced by the following shot. This is an essay featuring discontinuity and surprise. Images in this piece were compiled from approximately 30 films by George Méliès, most notably 'A Trip to the Moon (1902)' -- (A.R.)

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