Lumière & Company

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.

6.2

88 min

Cast

Jeff Alperi

as Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Romane Bohringer

as (segment "Claude Miller")

Bruno Ganz

as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Ticky Holgado

as (segment "Claude Lelouch")

Alan Rickman

as (segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson

as (segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea

as (segment "John Boorman")

Sven Nykvist

as (segment "Liv Ullman")

Lena Olin

as (segment "Lasse Hallström")

Pascal Duquenne

as (segment "Jaco Van Dormael")

Nathalie Richard

as Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")

Neil Jordan

as (segment "John Boorman")

Aidan Quinn

as (segment "John Boorman")

Isabelle Huppert

as Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)

Otto Sander

as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Max von Sydow

as Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman")

Spike Lee

as Self (segment "Sarah Moon")

David Lynch

as Self

Zhang Yimou

as Self

Jacques Rivette

as Self

Director

John Boorman

Michael Haneke

Costa-Gavras

Wim Wenders

Raymond Depardon

David Lynch

Lasse Hallström

Cédric Klapisch

Claude Lelouch

Alain Corneau

Francis Girod

Spike Lee

Vicente Aranda

Abbas Kiarostami

Theo Angelopoulos

Yoshishige Yoshida

Fernando Trueba

Hugh Hudson

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Zhang Yimou

Ismail Merchant

Sarah Moon

Arthur Penn

Bigas Luna

Nadine Trintignant

Jerry Schatzberg

Merzak Allouache

Andrei Konchalovsky

Claude Miller

Gaston Kaboré

Jaco Van Dormael

Gabriel Axel

Jacques Rivette

Idrissa Ouedraogo

James Ivory

Patrice Leconte

Peter Greenaway

Liv Ullmann

Régis Wargnier

Youssef Chahine

Lucian Pintilie