From the Lumière film boxes manufactured in the family factories to tactile digital screens, the scenographic displays illustrate these evolutions in an intrinsic manner. The didactic and educational exhibition gives pride of place to the importance of the cinema image that at the beginning of the twenty-first century is sometimes relegated to the miniature space of a mobile telephone screen. Appealing to the spectator’s sensitivity and emotions, the journey and the scenographic installation contribute to ‘re-enchanting’ the images and re-confer their original magic upon them.

Inventing Cinema provides visitors with the opportunity to rewind the history of the animated image, from its origins through to the latest production and screening techniques. Over a century separates the first cinematographic experiments from cinema as we know it today.