Film

Lumière & Company

Directed by Zhang Yimou, Alain Corneau, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Andrei Konchalovsky, Michael Haneke, Bigas Luna, Claude Lelouch, Hugh Hudson, Claude Miller, Spike Lee, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Patrice Leconte, Ismail Merchant, Arthur Penn, John Boorman, Sarah Moon, Jerry Schatzberg, Yoshishige Yoshida, Costa-Gavras, James Ivory, Liv Ullmann, Merzak Allouache, Peter Greenaway, Raymond Depardon, Theo Angelopoulos, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Francis Girod, Cédric Klapisch, Gaston Kaboré, Fernando Trueba, Jacques Rivette, Vicente Aranda, Lasse Hallström, Jaco Van Dormael, Gabriel Axel, David Lynch, Lucian Pintilie, Régis Wargnier, Nadine Trintignant, Abbas Kiarostami · 1995 · 88 min

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.