Lumière & Company

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

88 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.

Jeff Alperi

Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Romane Bohringer

(segment "Claude Miller")

Bruno Ganz

Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Ticky Holgado

(segment "Claude Lelouch")

Alan Rickman

(segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson

(segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea

(segment "John Boorman")

Sven Nykvist

(segment "Liv Ullman")

Lena Olin

(segment "Lasse Hallström")

Pascal Duquenne

(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")

Nathalie Richard

Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")

Neil Jordan

(segment "John Boorman")

Aidan Quinn

(segment "John Boorman")

Isabelle Huppert

Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)

Otto Sander

Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

John Boorman

Director

Costa-Gavras

Director

Wim Wenders

Director

David Lynch

Director

Spike Lee

Director

Hugh Hudson

Director

Zhang Yimou

Director

Sarah Moon

Director

Arthur Penn

Director

Bigas Luna

Director

Gabriel Axel

Director

James Ivory

Director

Liv Ullmann

Director

Anne Andreu

Art Direction

Françoise Nicolet

Costume Design

Anne Andreu

Executive Producer

Humbert Balsan

Associate Producer

Søren Stærmose

Co-Producer

Sven Nykvist

Director of Photography

Ángel Amigo

Co-Producer

Didier Ferry

Director of Photography

Jean-Yves Le Mener

Director of Photography

Sarah Moon

Director of Photography

Frédéric LeClair

Director of Photography

Philippe Poulet

Director of Photography

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