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40 ans de Light Cone / July 9, 2022

GUEST PROGRAM BY LIGHT CONE AT THE MÉLIÈS THEATER (MONTREUIL)

To celebrate half a century of existence of the Montreuil movie theater that bears the name of the first magician of the cinematographic illusion, Light Cone presents a self-reflexive program on the origins of cinema, its fundamental elements, and the splendors of the cinephile experience. The program's starting point is none other than the inventiveness of Georges Méliès, who, thanks to a camera malfunction, accidentally discovered a trick that allowed him to make The Vanishing Lady (1896), simultaneously opening up so many possibilities for the seventh art. Experimental film would become the privileged arena of optical tricks, which are often laid bare and pushed to the extremes of spectatorial sensation, as well as a space of reflection on the medium through the medium itself.

This program is thus a multiple tribute – not only to the persistence of cinema and cinephilia that Le Méliès and Light Cone support, but also to photochemical film, which is increasingly rare on the screens. All the films in the program will be shown in 35mm, providing a precious opportunity to admire the depth of the color palette and the magical vibration of this indispensable format.

CARTE BLANCHE À LIGHT CONE

Saturday July 09, 2022, 16:00


Carte Blanche à Light Cone, présentée par Eleni Gioti et Mariya Nikiforova


W O W (KODAK)
by Viktoria SCHMID
2018 / 35mm / color / sound / 2' 35
SELF PORTRAIT POST MORTEM
by Louise BOURQUE
2002 / 35mm / color / sound / 2' 30
ARIADNE
by Barbara METER
2004 / 35mm / color / sound / 12' 00
DE BLIKJESMAN
THE TINCANMAN
by Jaap PIETERS
1991 / 35mm / color / silent / 3' 20
A TO A
Kreis Wr.Neustadt
by Johann LURF
2012 / 35mm / color / sound / 5' 00
HONG KONG (HKG)
by Gerard HOLTHUIS
1999 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 13' 00
JIMMY'S BALLET
by Jaap PIETERS
1993 / 35mm / color / silent / 3' 00
DÉJEUNER DU MATIN
by Patrick BOKANOWSKI
1974 / 35mm / color / sound / 12' 00
BROUILLARD
PASSAGE #14
by Alexandre LAROSE
2013 / 35mm / color / silent / 10' 00
INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE
by Peter TSCHERKASSKY
2005 / 35mm / b&w / sound / 17' 00

MORE INFORMATION

address Cinéma Le Méliès
12, Place Jean Jaurès
93100 Montreuil
France
metro Mairie de Montreuil (ligne 9)
related link 50 ans du Cinéma Le Méliès
rates single rate: 3.50 €