Lumière and Company
Lumière et compagnie
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. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.
Direction
Theodoros Angelopoulos
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Vicente Aranda
John Boorman
Youssef Chahine
David Lynch
Peter Greenaway
Spike Lee
Wim Wenders
Bigas Luna
Costa-Gavras
Lasse Hallström
Gabriel Axel
Claude Miller
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Alain Corneau
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Merzak Allouache
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Raymond Depardon
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Jaco Van Dormael
Francis Girod
Michael Haneke
Hugh Hudson
James Ivory
Gaston Kaboré
Abbas Kiarostami
Cédric Klapisch
Andrei Konchalovsky
Patrice Leconte
Claude Lelouch
Ismail Merchant
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Arthur Penn
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Lucian Pintilie
Jacques Rivette
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Helma Sanders-Brahms
Jerry Schatzberg
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Nadine Trintignant
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Fernando Trueba
Liv Ullmann
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Régis Wargnier
Yoshishige Yoshida
Yimou Zhang
Screenplay
Cast
Pernilla August
Anna Åkerblom (segment: Liv Ullman)
Max von Sydow
Jacob (segment: Liv Ullman)
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Merzak Allouache
Self
Self
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Jeffe Alperi
Policeman (segment: David Lynch)
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Self
Self
Romane Bohringer
(segment: Claude Miller)
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Michele Carlyle
(segment: David Lynch)
Youssef Chahine
Self
Self
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Lou Chapiteau
(segment: Claude Miller)
Marc Chapiteau
(segment: Claude Miller)
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Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Composer
Peter Deming
Cinematographer
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Didier Ferry
Cinematographer
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Frédéric Le Clair
Cinematographer
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Jean-Yves Le Mener
Cinematographer
