Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

Overview

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.

1. John Boorman

   Director

2. Michael Haneke

   Director

3. Costa-Gavras

   Director

4. Wim Wenders

   Director

5. Raymond Depardon

   Director

6. David Lynch

   Director

7. Lasse Hallström

   Director

8. Cédric Klapisch

   Director

9. Claude Lelouch

   Director

10. Alain Corneau

    Director

11. Francis Girod

    Director

12. Spike Lee

    Director

13. Vicente Aranda

    Director

14. Abbas Kiarostami

    Director

15. Theo Angelopoulos

    Director

16. Yoshishige Yoshida

    Director

17. Fernando Trueba

    Director

18. Hugh Hudson

    Director

19. Helma Sanders-Brahms

    Director

20. Zhang Yimou

    Director

21. Ismail Merchant

    Director

22. Sarah Moon

    Director

23. Arthur Penn

    Director

24. Bigas Luna

    Director

25. Nadine Trintignant

    Director

26. Jerry Schatzberg

    Director

27. Merzak Allouache

    Director

28. Andrei Konchalovsky

    Director

29. Claude Miller

    Director

30. Gaston Kaboré

    Director

31. Jaco Van Dormael

    Director

32. Gabriel Axel

    Director

33. Jacques Rivette

    Director

34. Idrissa Ouedraogo

    Director

35. James Ivory

    Director

36. Patrice Leconte

    Director

37. Peter Greenaway

    Director

38. Liv Ullmann

    Director

39. Régis Wargnier

    Director

40. Youssef Chahine

    Director

41. Lucian Pintilie

    Director