Lumière and Company 1995

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

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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.

Release Date 1995-12-20
Runtime 1h 28m
Directors Lasse Hallström, Michael Haneke, Alain Corneau, Spike Lee, John Boorman, Cédric Klapisch, Raymond Depardon, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch, Vicente Aranda, Francis Girod, Theo Angelopoulos, Jaco Van Dormael, Ismail Merchant, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Peter Greenaway, Patrice Leconte, Gaston Kaboré, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jacques Rivette, Jerry Schatzberg, Merzak Allouache, Nadine Trintignant, Yoshishige Yoshida, Zhang Yimou, Gabriel Axel, Claude Miller, Arthur Penn, James Ivory, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Hugh Hudson, Régis Wargnier, Andrei Konchalovsky, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Lucian Pintilie, Frédéric LeClair, Philippe Poulet , Sven Nykvist, Sarah Moon, Didier Ferry, Jean-Yves Le Mener, Youssef Chahine
Producers Humbert Balsan, Søren Stærmose, Ángel Amigo, Anne Andreu, Fabienne Servan Schreiber, Neal Edelstein
Writer Philippe Poulet