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.

• John BoormanDirector
• Michael HanekeDirector
• Costa-GavrasDirector
• Wim WendersDirector
• Raymond DepardonDirector
• David LynchDirector
• Lasse HallströmDirector
• Cédric KlapischDirector
• Claude LelouchDirector
• Alain CorneauDirector
• Francis GirodDirector
• Spike LeeDirector
• Vicente ArandaDirector
• Abbas KiarostamiDirector
• Theo AngelopoulosDirector
• Yoshishige YoshidaDirector
• Fernando TruebaDirector
• Hugh HudsonDirector
• Helma Sanders-BrahmsDirector
• Zhang YimouDirector
• Ismail MerchantDirector
• Sarah MoonDirector
• Arthur PennDirector
• Bigas LunaDirector
• Nadine TrintignantDirector
• Jerry SchatzbergDirector
• Merzak AllouacheDirector
• Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
• Claude MillerDirector
• Gaston KaboréDirector
• Jaco Van DormaelDirector
• Gabriel AxelDirector
• Jacques RivetteDirector
• Idrissa OuedraogoDirector
• James IvoryDirector
• Patrice LeconteDirector
• Peter GreenawayDirector
• Liv UllmannDirector
• Régis WargnierDirector
• Youssef ChahineDirector
• Lucian PintilieDirector

• Jeff AlperiPoliceman (segment "David Lynch")
• Romane Bohringer(segment "Claude Miller")
• Bruno GanzDamiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
• Ticky Holgado(segment "Claude Lelouch")
• Alan Rickman(segment "John Boorman")
• Liam Neeson(segment "John Boorman")
• Stephen Rea(segment "John Boorman")
• Sven Nykvist(segment "Liv Ullman")
• Lena Olin(segment "Lasse Hallström")
• Pascal Duquenne(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
• Nathalie RichardNinon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
• Neil Jordan(segment "John Boorman")