-While recent technological developments are pulling cinema towards electronic abstraction (digital cameras, editing on Avid) and that even the film archives are beset by the "digital dragon", as Asian archivists like to say, "La beauté du geste" celebrates the mechanical cinema, playful relative of the railroad and the assembly line, whose the futuristic beauty of which was sung by the classic Soviet cinema. While we talk about downloading and satellite-powered cinemas, Jeanne Crépeau films the journey of the reels between the storage facilities in Boucherville and the screening room in Montreal (Canada).