Lumière & Company

Lumière et Compagnie1995

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

Overview

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: December 20, 1995
Original language: French
Spoken languages: Chinese, Danish, English, French, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Swedish
Countries: France, Denmark, Spain, Sweden
Production: La Sept-Arte,Cinétévé,Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.,Søren Stærmose
Cast: Stephen Rea,Jacques Rivette,Max von Sydow,Zhang Yimou,Lena Olin,Jeff Alperi,Otto Sander,Romane Bohringer,Sven Nykvist,Liam Neesonand 10 more
Director: Raymond Depardon,Jacques Rivette,Régis Wargnier,Zhang Yimou,Liv Ullmann,Hugh Hudson,Jaco Van Dormael,Nadine Trintignant,Yoshishige Yoshida,James Ivory,Gabriel Axel,Theo Angelopoulos,Bigas Luna,Cédric Klapisch,John Boorman,Ismail Merchant,Alain Corneau,Vicente Aranda,Arthur Penn,Costa-Gavras,Helma Sanders-Brahms,Peter Greenaway,Lucian Pintilie,Merzak Allouache,Idrissa Ouedraogo,Patrice Leconte,Fernando Trueba,Francis Girod,Lasse Hallström,Wim Wenders,Michael Haneke,Youssef Chahine,David Lynch,Spike Lee,Jerry Schatzberg,Claude Lelouch,Andrei Konchalovsky,Gaston Kaboré,Sarah Moon,Claude Miller,Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Philippe Poulet
Producer: Neal Edelstein,Fabienne Servan Schreiber,Anne Andreu
Cinematography: Philippe Poulet,Sven Nykvist,Frédéric LeClair,Jean-Yves Le Mener,Didier Ferry,Sarah Moon
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
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