A Trip to the Moon

The film that invented science fiction cinema. Georges Méliès — stage magician turned filmmaker — launched a rocket into the eye of the Man in the Moon and nothing was ever the same. In just fourteen astonishing minutes, Méliès conjures an entire lunar expedition using hand-painted sets, theatrical stagecraft, and editing tricks that audiences in 1902 had simply never seen. A troupe of astronomers blasts off in a cannon-propelled capsule, tangles with acrobatic moon creatures called Selenites, and tumbles back to Earth in triumph. It is pure wonder — playful, inventive, and bursting with the joy of a man who understood that cinema was, above all, magic.