Lumière and Company [Lumière et Compagnie]
- Release Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Action
- Comedy
- Documentary
- Drama
- Directed By
- Lasse Hallström
- Vicente Aranda
- John Boorman
- Alain Corneau
- Raymond Depardon
- Francis Girod
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Spike Lee
- Claude Lelouch
- Michael Haneke
- David Lynch
- Costa-Gavras
- Peter Greenaway
- Hugh Hudson
- Gaston Kaboré
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Bigas Luna
- Sarah Moon
- Arthur Penn
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Jerry Schatzberg
- Nadine Trintignant
- Fernando Trueba
- Jaco Van Dormael
- Régis Wargnier
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Zhang Yimou
- Merzak Allouache
- Gabriel Axel
- Patrice Leconte
- Ismail Merchant
- Claude Miller
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Jacques Rivette
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Lucian Pintilie
- Youssef Chahine
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.
