Lumière and Company (1995)

Original title

Lumière et Compagnie

Directed by

Spike Lee, David Lynch, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie

Genre

documentary film, anthology film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Denmark

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Forty-one directors each made a short film using the original Lumière Cinematographe camera. Each short lasts less than a minute, uses no synchronized sound, and was edited in the camera.

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What happens

Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Auguste and Louis Lumière. The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules: A short may be no longer than 52 seconds No synchronized sound No more than three takes (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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