FREE EVENT!

Join us this Scotiabank Nuit Blanche on a “trip to the moon,” TIFF Cinematheque’s all-night programme celebrating the origins of cinema, with films by les frères Lumière (Louis & Auguste) and Georges Méliès. Since its birth in 1895 (the date on which an audience first assembled and paid to watch a screening – a very short one! – in the Salon Indien at the Grand Café in Paris), the cinema has split into two principal strands: the documentary mode commonly associated with the Lumière brothers, and fiction, which evolved from the fantastical storytelling and wildly creative set design of Georges Méliès, a magician who was among the paying spectators in that historic first screening. As the never-ending saga of “Louis vs. Georges” resurfaces throughout the evolution of cinema (see our essay film series on pages 40-47 for fine examples), with works in both camps routinely defying their