The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

The read

It runs a compact 53m.

Synopsis

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.

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Key crew

• Laëtitia Pansanel-GarricOriginal Music Composer
• Stefan CornicDirector

Cast

• Vimala PonsSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Bertrand LemoineSelf - Architecture Historian
• Vanessa SchwartzSelf - Art Historian
• Tacita DeanSelf - Artist
• Paul PerrinSelf - Painting Curator
• Mark LewisSelf - Artist
• Dominique PaïniSelf - Film Curator
• Marie RobertSelf - Photo Curator
• Thierry FrémauxSelf - Institut Lumière Director
• Christian PetzoldSelf - Filmmaker
• Olivier AssayasSelf - Filmmaker

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