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A Trip to the Moon
History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk
There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.
And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.
The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.
That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#ATripToTheMoon #Artemis #colonialism #Conquest #culturalCritique #EarlyCinema #Empire #FearOfTheUnknown #FilmReflection #HonoringMystery #humanNature #Lament #Modernity #MoonRace #Moonfall #moralImagination #mystery #Otherness #propheticReflection #Racism #Reverence #scienceFiction #SpaceExploration #StarsAndEmpire #TechnologyAndEthics #Violence #Wonder -
A Trip to the Moon
History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk
There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.
And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.
The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.
That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#ATripToTheMoon #Artemis #colonialism #Conquest #culturalCritique #EarlyCinema #Empire #FearOfTheUnknown #FilmReflection #HonoringMystery #humanNature #Lament #Modernity #MoonRace #Moonfall #moralImagination #mystery #Otherness #propheticReflection #Racism #Reverence #scienceFiction #SpaceExploration #StarsAndEmpire #TechnologyAndEthics #Violence #Wonder -
Pauline Méliès: "Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day"
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #PereLachaise #PèreLachaise #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Just a head’s up next week #SilentSundayNights has Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon” (1902) and Ingram’s “The Magician” (1926)
#TCMParty #ATripToTheMoon #TheMagician #SilentFilm #scifi #horror -
Just watching the #Assembled making of's and other behind the scenes (#BTS) shows about #BlackPanther or #WakandaForever is more than enough evidence to prove that these films are art and true cinema, every bit as much as #ATripToTheMoon, #KingKong, #JasonAndTheArgonauts, #2001, and #StarWars, as examples.
#CGI is part of #cinematic art, no less than #animation, #colorization, #celluloid, #color, or #sound.
And #visual #spectacle in service of a good #story is its core.