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