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Lumière & Company
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.
Creators
Lasse Hallström
director
Vicente Aranda
director
John Boorman
director
Alain Corneau
director
Raymond Depardon
director
Francis Girod
director
Abbas Kiarostami
director
Cédric Klapisch
director
Spike Lee
director
Claude Lelouch
director
Michael Haneke
director
David Lynch
director
Wim Wenders
director
Costa-Gavras
director
Theo Angelopoulos
director
Peter Greenaway
director
Hugh Hudson
director
Gaston Kaboré
director
Andrei Konchalovsky
director
Bigas Luna
director
Sarah Moon
director
Arthur Penn
director
Helma Sanders-Brahms
director
Jerry Schatzberg
director
Nadine Trintignant
director
Fernando Trueba
director
Liv Ullmann
director
Jaco Van Dormael
director
Régis Wargnier
director
Yoshishige Yoshida
director
Zhang Yimou
director
Merzak Allouache
director
Gabriel Axel
director
James Ivory
director
Patrice Leconte
director
Ismail Merchant
director
Claude Miller
director
Idrissa Ouédraogo
director
Jacques Rivette
director
Youssef Chahine
director
Lucian Pintilie
director
Philippe Poulet
writer
Cast
Romane Bohringer
actor
Ticky Holgado
actor
Alan Rickman
actor
Liam Neeson
actor
Stephen Rea
actor
Lena Olin
actor
Neil Jordan
actor
Aidan Quinn
actor
Otto Sander
actor
Max Von Sydow
actor
David Lynch
actor
Zhang Yimou
actor
