Lumière & Company (1995)

Lumière & Company (1995)

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

Release Date: 1995, December 20
Directors: David Lynch, Spike Lee, Zhang Yimou, Lasse Hallström, Liv Ullmann, Wim Wenders, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Miller, Michael Haneke, Jaco Van Dormael, Fernando Trueba, Abbas Kiarostami, Bigas Luna, John Boorman, James Ivory, Arthur Penn, Peter Greenaway, Cédric Klapisch, Hugh Hudson, Costa-Gavras, Régis Wargnier, Merzak Allouache, Raymond Depardon, Claude Lelouch, Patrice Leconte, Alain Corneau, Vicente Aranda, Jacques Rivette, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Theo Angelopoulos, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Youssef Chahine, Francis Girod, Yoshishige Yoshida, Lucian Pintilie, Ismail Merchant, Nadine Trintignant, Jerry Schatzberg, Gaston Kaboré, Gabriel Axel, Sarah Moon
Countries: Denmark, Spain, France, Sweden
Production: Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L., Søren Stærmose
Cast: Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Max von Sydow, Lena Olin, Ticky Holgado, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, Nathalie Richard, Otto Sander, Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz, Pascal Duquenne

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.