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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "sci-fi" (4)

A Trip to the Moon

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1902
Minutes: 13

Astronomers make a trip to the Moon. [Star Film 399-411]

Featured elements:

: adventure; fantasy; sci-fi

Filibus

Mario Roncoroni (director)
Giovanni Bertinetti (writer)
Luigi Fiorio (cinematographer)
Valeria Creti (lead)
Giovanni Spano (lead)
Cristina Ruspoli (lead)
Corona (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, Spanish subtitles, released in Mar 1915
Minutes: 76

Before Mabuse, there was Fantomas - an earlier take on the criminal mastermind outwitting the detective through deception and disguise. Following the success of Fantomas, came the master criminal Filibus in this story (which also seems to have gotten some inspiration from Jules Verne's "Master of the World"). But while Fantomas and Mabuse are murderous psychos, Filibus seems to be just having fun bouncing between genders, flirting first with the brother then the sister. Is Filibus really a baroness - or a woman at all - or is that just another disguise?

Featured elements:

: action; alter ego; antihero; crime; criminal mastermind; cross-dressing; detective; falsely accused; fantasy; gender-bender; heist; lady or gentleman thief; manipulator; sci-fi; undercover agent; unrequited love; unstoppable menace

The End of the World (Verdens Undergan)

August Blom (director)
Louis Larsen (cinematographer)
Otto Rung (writer)
Ebba Thomsen (lead)
Olaf Fønss (lead)
Johanne Fritz-Petersen (lead)
Nordisk (production)

Language: Silent, Danish and English titles, released in Apr 1916
Minutes: 77

Denmark punked out of The Great War, and so missed out on the Great Debut of two of modern technology's Great Weapons of Mass Death and Misery from the air: bombing of cities, and clouds of poison gas. Sniffing out the profit potential from Denmark's movie fans who'd pay to get a taste of that action in their own hoods (safely), Nordisk's exploitation film division went into overdrive and came up with a winner and released it on April Fool's Day. Grounded in an engaging story of class and family struggle with a healthy dose of hiss-worthy villainy, executed with strong performances (aided by authenticity of masses of nonprofessionals), and crowned with credible special effects and stunning cinematography revealed in this excellent restoration, this deserves greater recognition.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; breaking class; business; corruption; crime; dance; death scene; family; fighting; flashback; forsaken; gold digger; home invasion; infidelity; manipulator; melodrama; newsroom; patriarchy; prison; religion; revenge; romance; sci-fi; servitude; shipwreck; state of emergency; suspense; swindling; treachery; uprising; wage slavery

A Trip to Mars (Himmelskibet)

Holger-Madsen (director)
Ole Olsen [1863-1943] (producer/writer)
Sophus Michaëlis (author/writer)
Nicolai Neiiendam (lead)
Gunnar Tolnæs (lead)
Zanny Petersen (lead)
Alf Blütecher (lead)
Svend Kornbeck (lead)

Language: Silent, Danish and English titles, Spanish subtitles, released in Feb 1918
Minutes: 81

Nine adventurous thrill-seeking young men in tight leather suits share a cramped spaceship for months. Right - love the kinky Warholish story idea, and its social commentary. Shame the commentary is never developed, and ruined by 19th-century grand stage-style cornball acting.

Featured elements:

: addiction; adventure; family; melodrama; motley crew; patriarchy; sci-fi; social commentary

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