'Le voyage dans la lune' by Georges Méliès

I watched Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret the other day, partly about the life of Georges Méliès, an illusionist and pioneer in the earliest days of cinema. The movie was an interesting mixture between modern computer animated visual effects and image's, sceneries and clip's from Méliès movies.

As an illusionist Méliès saw the possibilities with cinema in creating astonishing acts, making people dissappear from one movie frame to the next, or by making laughing heads floating in air etc. All created by making illusional backdrops, mechanical constructions, costumes and sceneries. To me Scorsese is daring when he makes a movie full of computer animated, unrealistic (adding to much of everything) and bombastic sceneries and in the same movie including Méliès clips, which are so much more alive, kicking and beautiful.

Below is a full version (15 min) of Méliès  'Le voyage dans la lune', 'A trip to the moon'. Originally black and white negatives which were hand coloured frame by frame. Restored and with music by Air.

Residents in Stockholm 8th of may

Sensational. In my wildest dreams I didn't believe I'll get to see The Residents live. Check out their one-minute movies below from their 'Commercial album' (Yes that's the title of the album) from 1980 with 40 songs, each one minute long. Certainly an inspiration for my Golem Game, both musically and visually. Go and see!