Lumière and Company (1995)

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Directing:
  • David Lynch
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Lasse Hallström
  • Jacques Rivette
  • Jerry Schatzberg
  • Zhang Yimou
  • Gabriel Axel
  • Patrice Leconte
  • Spike Lee
  • Arthur Penn
  • Bigas Luna
  • Vicente Aranda
  • John Boorman
  • Youssef Chahine
  • Alain Corneau
  • Raymond Depardon
  • Francis Girod
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Cédric Klapisch
  • Claude Lelouch
  • Michael Haneke
  • Wim Wenders
  • Costa-Gavras
  • Theo Angelopoulos
  • Peter Greenaway
  • Gaston Kaboré
  • Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Sarah Moon
  • Helma Sanders-Brahms
  • Nadine Trintignant
  • Fernando Trueba
  • Liv Ullmann
  • Jaco Van Dormael
  • Régis Wargnier
  • Yoshishige Yoshida
  • Merzak Allouache
  • James Ivory
  • Ismail Merchant
  • Claude Miller
  • Idrissa Ouedraogo
  • Lucian Pintilie

Writing:
  • Philippe Poulet

Stars:
Release Date: 1995-12-20
themoviedb icon 6.3/10
  • Country: FR, DK, ES, SE
  • Language: English | ελληνικά | Dansk | 普通话 | Norsk | فارسی | Français | svenska | 日本語
  • Runtime: 88

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