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Lumière and Company

1995 · 1 hr 28 mins

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.

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

Cast: Jeff Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado, Alan Rickman

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