Metempsycose (1907)

Original title

Métempsycose

Directed by

Ferdinand Zecca

Genre

fantasy film

Country

France

Runtime

3 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This early fantasy film presents a series of disconnected scenes where statues come alive, dancers act like dolls, women change into butterflies, and babies emerge from giant flowers. The movie moves from one strange image to the next, like a dream where nothing quite makes sense.

whimsicaldreamlikesurrealplayfuldisorientingbizarrenonsensicalpoetic

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.