Lumière & Company (1995)
★ 6.2 (68) · 88 min
Directors: Abbas Kiarostami · man Alain Corneau · man Andrei Konchalovsky · man Arthur Penn · man Bigas Luna · man Claude Lelouch · man Claude Miller · man Costa-Gavras · man Cédric Klapisch · man David Lynch · man Fernando Trueba · man Francis Girod · man Gabriel Axel · man Gaston Kaboré · man Helma Sanders-Brahms · woman Hugh Hudson · man Idrissa Ouedraogo · man Ismail Merchant · man Jaco Van Dormael · man Jacques Rivette · man James Ivory · man Jerry Schatzberg · man John Boorman · man Lasse Hallström · man Liv Ullmann · woman Lucian Pintilie · man Merzak Allouache · man Michael Haneke · man Nadine Trintignant · woman Patrice Leconte · man Peter Greenaway · man Raymond Depardon · man Régis Wargnier · man Sarah Moon · woman Spike Lee · man Theo Angelopoulos · man Vicente Aranda · man Wim Wenders · man Yoshishige Yoshida · man Youssef Chahine · man Zhang Yimou · man
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.