Lumière & 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.

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

Created by

Anne Andreu