Lumière & Company

Directed by Francis Girod, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Vicente Aranda, Claude Lelouch, John Boorman, Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Lasse Hallström, Raymond Depardon, Theo Angelopoulos, Merzak Allouache, Ismail Merchant, Gabriel Axel, Peter Greenaway, Sarah Moon, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Zhang Yimou, Claude Miller, Arthur Penn, Andrei Konchalovsky, Nadine Trintignant, Liv Ullmann, Régis Wargnier, Jacques Rivette, Bigas Luna, Jaco Van Dormael, Yoshishige Yoshida, Patrice Leconte, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Fernando Trueba, James Ivory, Youssef Chahine, Lucian Pintilie

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.