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