Paris, 1902, “Le Voyage dans la Lune”: on the screen, a spaceship crashes into the eye of the moon, which is depicted as a human face. The audience of that small Parisian cinema is witnessing a sequence that will not only remain in the history of cinema, but that will also mark the birth of a film genre: science fiction.Georges Méliès’ imaginative portrait, inspired by the novels of Jules Verne, plays with fiction and illusions.