Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company

Released on
Documentary
Runtime
88 mins
(66 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Jeff Alperi
  • Romane Bohringer
  • Bruno Ganz
  • Ticky Holgado
  • Alan Rickman
  • Liam Neeson
  • Stephen Rea
  • Sven Nykvist
  • Lena Olin
  • Pascal Duquenne
  • Nathalie Richard
  • Neil Jordan
  • Aidan Quinn
  • Isabelle Huppert
  • Otto Sander

Director

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

Producers

  • Neal Edelstein
  • Fabienne Servan Schreiber

Screenwriter

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