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