Cinemacabre presents:

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), 1902
​by George Méliès

15 minutes, 38 seconds (full run time)

A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and its sequel Around the Moon (1870), the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis.

Although the film disappeared into obscurity (after Méliès's retirement from the film industry) it was rediscovered around 1930, when Méliès's importance to the history of cinema was beginning to be recognised by film devotees. An original hand-colored print was discovered in 1993, and restored in 2011.

This restored version (which is screening in the Micro-Theatre to complement Art Ghoullery VIII: The Infinite Void) premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, eighteen years after its discovery and 109 years after its original release, with a new soundtrack by the French band Air.\
  
The above was adapted from Wikipedia.org.

Art Ghoullery VIII: The Infinite Void is on display on the second level until 2 November 2025.

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Raymond Rea

The Rourke proudly presents the work of a new filmmaker every two months thanks to the expert curation of Raymond Rea.

Raymond Rea is a transmale filmmaker and writer whose work has been screened nationally and internationally at festivals and in educational settings, including (but not limited to): the San Francisco International Film Festival (Frameline), MIX NYC, MIX Mexico, Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival, BFI London, Outfest, Inside Out, Translations, the Seattle Transgender Film Festival, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. His experimental work has also screened at microcinemas including Echo Park Film Center, The Nightingale, Indie Memphis, Artist's Television Access. His writing has been produced at the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco and Theatre B in Moorhead, Minnesota.

​For more information, visit: https://raymondrea.com