Controstorie. Intervista impossibile a Méliès e Lumière

Through an imaginary conversation with Georges Méliès and Louis Lumière, this writing questions the most canonical stereotypes on which the history of cinema was based in the past, including the date of the first paid public screening on a large screen, which took place in Berlin on November 1, 1895 (and not in Paris on December 28, 1895, as commonly claimed). Among others, it dispels the myth of a rigid separation between a supposed documentary vocation embodied by Lumière’s production, and a story-telling vocation represented by the works of Méliès, by problematizing the categories habitually used to address these topics.