Mekanisk

This is a 35-minute production for audiences young and old that takes you on a continuous journey through a dozen of Melies most cherished short films. The content is magical, absurd, and uniquely imaginative, with the centerpiece being the film “the incredible voyage”, a suspenseful expedition to sun. Avers and Albert interact and enhance the films as players on a stage and as performing musicians..

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French illusionist, actor, and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour.

Avers and Albert were commissioned to do this production in 2013 by the Akershus Fylkeskommune which manifest in a 50 concert tour of schools in Norway. The music was composed by Avers and Albert, and the scenography was created by Pierre Michel Faure. The film selection was chosen from over 100 short films by Melies.