“The marvellous indicates a harmonious parallel world …the marvellous presents us with the impossible happening in a world where impossibility is the rule.” — Paul Hammond, The Marvellous Méliès.

Tom Gunning, a film scholar noted for his illuminating work on the earliest period of film history, will present a special evening of animated illusion, conjuring slides and magic film. The projection of hand-painted and photographic magic lantern slides of the 1800s (chromatropes, pulley slides) and a selection of early films of magical disappearances and metamorphosis promises a night of surprises.