Lumière and Company
"Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors"
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.
Genres: Documentary
Directors: Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Corneau, Andrei Konchalovsky, Arthur Penn, Bigas Luna, Cédric Klapisch, Claude Lelouch, Claude Miller, Costa-Gavras, David Lynch, Fernando Trueba, Francis Girod, Gabriel Axel, Gaston Kaboré, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Hugh Hudson, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ismail Merchant, Jaco Van Dormael, Jacques Rivette, James Ivory, Jerry Schatzberg, John Boorman, Lasse Hallström, Liv Ullmann, Lucian Pintilie, Merzak Allouache, Michael Haneke, Nadine Trintignant, Patrice Leconte, Peter Greenaway, Raymond Depardon, Régis Wargnier, Spike Lee, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, Wim Wenders, Yimou Zhang, Yoshishige Yoshida, Youssef Chahine
Writers: Philippe Poulet
Cast
IMDB: tt0113718