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