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.

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