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