Lumière & Company(1995)

movie - first aired/released 1995-12-20 - audience 6.3

Directed by Arthur Penn, Bigas Luna, Cédric Klapisch, David Lynch, Fernando Trueba, Gaston Kaboré, Hugh Hudson, Ismail Merchant, Jaco Van Dormael, Jacques Rivette, Jerry Schatzberg, Liv Ullmann, Lucian Pintilie, Nadine Trintignant, Peter Greenaway, Raymond Depardon, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders

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.