A magic lantern and its precious glass slides – from those of 18th-century Italy and their facial expressions, to the splendid astronomic slides from 19th-century Britain, to those that made Loïe Fuller’s snake dance famous in the early 1900s. The result – a unique form of entertainment: a show of images that predates and presages cinema, a magic moment in which the ancient art of projecting luminous images is transformed into a new form of art that would go on to colonize our collective imagination and bring us back to the essence of the storytelling through (illusorily) moving images. Completing this performance, the participation of an actor, a dancer, and the Cirko Vertigo School.