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