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