Lumière and Company 1995
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.
- Released: 1995-12-20
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Jeff Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Sven Nykvist, Lena Olin, Pascal Duquenne, Nathalie Richard, Neil Jordan, Aidan Quinn, Isabelle Huppert, Otto Sander
- Director: Costa-Gavras, Zhang Yimou, Wim Wenders, Claude Miller, Spike Lee, Michael Haneke, Arthur Penn, Theo Angelopoulos, Liv Ullmann, James Ivory, Claude Lelouch, Cédric Klapisch, John Boorman, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Fernando Trueba, Régis Wargnier, Peter Greenaway, Francis Girod, 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, Sarah Moon, Lasse Hallström, David Lynch, Youssef Chahine