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

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

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