Lumière and Company
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
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.
- Year: 1995
- Country: France, Denmark, Spain, Sweden
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.
- Keyword: homage, woman director
- Director: Francis Girod, Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Corneau, Raymond Depardon, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, Lasse Hallström, Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Vicente Aranda, Cédric Klapisch, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, John Boorman, Theo Angelopoulos, Gaston Kaboré, Helma Sanders-Brahms, James Ivory, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Nadine Trintignant, Jacques Rivette, Jerry Schatzberg, Jaco Van Dormael, Merzak Allouache, Yoshishige Yoshida, Zhang Yimou, Gabriel Axel, Hugh Hudson, Peter Greenaway, Arthur Penn, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Claude Miller, Liv Ullmann, Ismail Merchant, Régis Wargnier, Patrice Leconte, Andrei Konchalovsky, Fernando Trueba, Lucian Pintilie, Youssef Chahine
- Cast: Jeff Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson