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