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