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