La Folie du Docteur Tube (1915)

Original title

La folie du Docteur Tube

Directed by

Abel Gance

Genre

comedy film, silent film, science fiction film

Country

France

Runtime

6 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist takes a strange white powder and starts to see everything in warped and twisted ways. The film uses distorted mirrors and lenses to show his strange visions.

experimentaldisorientingwackyplayfuloffbeatvisualsurreal

What happens

La Folie du docteur Tube is a 1915 short silent experimental film directed by Abel Gance, in which a scientist takes a white, cocaine-like powder which makes him hallucinate. Gance shows the man's hallucinations by using a series of distorting mirrors and ordinary lenses, because no distorting lenses were available at this moment in time. A copy of the film is preserved at the Cinémathèque française and has been digitised. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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