Praxinoscope animation of a man spinning around a trapeze. Series 2, number 7.
Praxinoscope animation of a woman feeding chickens. Series 1, number 4
Praxinoscope animations of a girl in a blue dress bouncing a shuttlecock on a badminton racket. Series 2, number 2
Praxinoscope animation of a boy holding a hoop for two trained dogs to leap through. Series 1, number 8.
Praxinoscope animation of an equestrian riding. Series 3, number 8.
Praxinoscope animation of a juggler balancing a spinning plate on their nose. Series 1, number 2.
Praxinoscope animation of a girl charming a flock of birds. Series 3, number 1.
In an era marked by the reign of fluid relationships, through apps and blind dates, Alejo seeks to fill his sentimental void by constantly changing sex partners.
Praxinoscope animation of a child laying down balancing a drum upon his upraised legs. Series 1, number 3.
Praxinoscope animation of a butterfly fluttering about a flower. Series 2, number 6.
Praxinoscope animation of two children playing on a homemade teeter-totter. Series 3, number 2.
Praxinoscope animation of a chef rotating meat on a spit while spooning drippings over it. Series 1, number 6.
Praxinoscope animation of a man sitting backwards in a char smoking a cigar, while a dog jumps up at him. Series 3, number 5.
A patchwork of the first animated movies from the collections of La Cinémathèque française : Stroboscopic Discs (1833), Zoetropes (since 1867), Reynaud's Praxinoscope (1878-1879), plates of Muybridge and Anschütz (1880-1890), an unseen Marey's chronophotography (1889), Chromolithographs films (since 1897), including one inspired by the second Georges Méliès' film, "Une séance de prestidigitation" (1896), with a photographic version, unseen until now.
Praxinoscope animation of a girl in a blue dress blowing soap bubbles. Series 1, number 5.
The 8th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Fictionalised documentary about Emile Reynau who invented the praxinoscope and its system of central mirrors. He then projects his paper strips into the projection praxinoscope before creating the Théâtre Optique, presented at the Musée Grévin. The perforated strips are fragile and often break. The show is cancelled. Reynaud tries to apply photography to his praxinoscope, but without success. Desperate and ruined, he throws his strips into the Seine. Only two survived.
An homage to Emile Reynaud, the first man to project animated films on a public screen.