Cinétévé

Lumière and Company (1995)

Lumière et compagnie | France| Spain| Denmark| Sweden
Genre
Action| Documentary| Drama| Comedy
IMDB
6.9 (3232 votes)
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. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.