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