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