The Cinérama of Eléonore Geissler
The Cinérama of Eléonore Geissler Thursday, November 16, 19:30 Cycle of meetings with the artists of Fresnoy around the films they have made and a cinematographic work of their choice. THE WORLD’S OLDEST FILM By Éléonore Geissler 2023 | France | Production Le Fresnoy - National Studio In 1938, curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered an unidentified fish off the East African coast. This is the coelacanth, a species that was thought to have disappeared since the Denovian era. An ichthyology laboratory finds that photosensitive fish scales have recorded images. Read like a film film by superimposing them at 12 scales per second, they made it possible to reconstitute the oldest film in the world. TETSUO De Shinya Tsukamoto 1994 | Japan | 1h07 | OV Forbidden to under 16 years old A man inserts a metal rod into the thigh. The wound quickly became infected. Frightened, he ran away and was hit by a car. After getting rid of the corpse, the driver notices that his body becomes a magnet that attracts to him all the metal detritus of the city...