Pierre-Antoine Lasnier, electric Bass
Pritam Sengupta, percussions
Neel Sarkar, guitar/string instruments
Sushruto Goswami, flute
Les Mélodies de Nirbaak is an Indian ciné concert project.
The cine-concert is about 1 hour and the 4 films following short films (10 to15 minutes each) will be screened:
1) A trip to the Moon (1902)
2) Joan of Arc (1900)
3) Bluebeard (1901)
4) Kingdom of Fairies (1903)
Georges Méliès, (1861 – 1938) was an early French experimenter with motion pictures, the first to film fictional narratives.
When the first genuine movies, made by the Lumière brothers, were shown in Paris in 1895, Méliès, a professional magician and manager-director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, was among the spectators. The films were scenes from real life having the novelty of motion, but Méliès saw at once their further possibilities. He acquired a camera, built a glass-enclosed studio near Paris, wrote scripts, designed ingenious sets, and used actors to film stories. With a magician’s intuition, he discovered and exploited the basic camera tricks: stop motion, slow motion, dissolve, fade-out, superimposition, and double exposure.
From 1899 to 1912 Méliès made more than 400 films, the best of which combine illusion, comic burlesque, and pantomime to treat themes of fantasy in a playful and absurd fashion. He specialized in depicting extreme physical transformations of the human body (such as the dismemberment of heads and limbs) for comic effect. His films included pictures as diverse as Cléopâtre (1899; Cleopatra’s Tomb), Le Christ marchant sur les eaux (1899; Christ Walking on Water), Le Voyage dans la lune (1902; “A Trip to the Moon”), Le Voyage à travers l’impossible (1904; The Voyage Across the Impossible), and Hamlet (1908).
