In turn, the statues come to life, dancers like dolls, perform on a table, the women metamorphose from butterflies, and babies are born from giant flowers. These scenes are a series of tableaux which are beautifully incoherent, changing and diverse as in real life, where it is necessary to have a certain belief in metaphysics for the soul to be transported into a perpetual motion, migrating from one another and into the stars.
Watch the official Métempsycose 1907 trailer in HD below.
Montéquio Cebolinha and Julieta Monicapuleto find themselves in a passionate love affair, but unfortunately, their families vehemently oppose their relationship.
A battle between two forces takes place. There's no information on this 4-minute film aside from the fact that it was available from Charles Urban's Urban Trading Company, one of the most vigorous of British film production and distribution companies in the era.
In the first scene, a gentleman invites a lady to a ball, in the second they are dancing after the ball in a restaurant - slightly drunk - with the resulting consequences for the restaurant.
An early documentary by Tunisian film pioneer Albert Samama Chikly who lovingly documented Tunisian culture, and filmed over Tunis from a balloon in 1907.
