Gray Magic for a Gray Day

By: Matthew Battles
December 5, 2009

Presenting Georges Méliès’ Les cartes vivantes, a short, fey film by the maker of Le voyage dans la lune.

Méliès was a magician before he made films, and here he adapts a bit of stage conjuring to the silver screen with simplicity and charm. I see this and I think all films should use tiny proscenium stages for sets.

— via Mary K. Greer’s Tarot blog.

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

Gray Magic for a Gray Day

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