IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Georges Méliès

      As a young man, the film pioneer Georges MÉLIES (1861-1938, Paris, France) was not very interested in his parents' shoe factory. He preferred to focus on conjuring tricks and the magic of the first moving images. He was the first filmmaker to build his own studio to shoot his films, a specialist in special effects and a great technical innovator. His film A Trip to the Moon (1902) is one of the most important works from the early years of cinema. His success came to an end in 1913, partly as a result of his work being pirated in the USA. He had to sell all his possessions and ended his years selling toys at the Gare Montparnasse.

      Filmography

      (selection, all short) Escamotage d’une dame au théâtre Robert-Houdin (1896), Le manoir du diable (1896), Faust et Marguerite (1897), La danse du feu (1897), Cendrillon (1899), L’affaire Dreyfus (1899), Jeanne d’Arc (1900), L’homme à la tête de caoutchouc (1901), Le voyage dans la lune/A Trip to the Moon (1902), Le royaume des fees (1903), Le chaudron infernal (1903), Le cake-walk infernal (1903), La lanterne magique (1903), Le rêve du maître de ballet (1903), Faust aux enfers (1903), Les cartes vivantes (1903), Le thaumaturge chinois (1904), Le voyage à travers l’Impossible (1904), Le palais des mille et une nuits (1905), Le raid Paris-Monte Carlo en 2 heures (1905), Les 400 farces du diable (1906), L’éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907), 20 000 lieues sous les mers (1907), La fée libellule (1908), La conquête du pole (1912), Le voyage de la famille Bourrichon (1913)

      Georges Méliès op IFFR