The Magic Mirror

She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

A musketeer, whose sword has the power to transform objects at will, stays at an inn and amuses himself by mystifying his hosts. That night, a...

A British trick film with stop-motion animation by an unknown film maker.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

The Lady of the Sand presented her sand short film "Beautiful Morocco" in July 2013, created for the Foundation of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla...

In November 2012, Kseniya Simonova presented this new epic story, one of her most aesthetic and beautiful sand ballads, inspired by her Russian roots.

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled...