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