Once upon a time cinema was born of the spirit of fairground attractions, sleight of hand and fireworks. The world of moving images was soon populated by all kinds of rejoicing figures, who jumped, crawled and rolled in groups through forests and over dunes.

Using images from the first 40 years of cinematography, taken from archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical film drama in five acts, with the film held together with quotes from ancient Greek mythology. The film constructs its own amazing attractions from the juxtaposition of documentary, fictional, pornographic, scientific and propaganda images that are literally alien to their original purpose. In other words, they are images that do not necessarily belong together, though they create visual contexts.

And a line leads from the ancients to the mythical stories that cinema is still telling. Film Ist; a girl and a gun. This is a poetic and mesmerising film, the like of which you may never have seen before; a unique work of art.