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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 Lumière brothers.^[1]^[2]

Lumière and Company

Directed by	Several (see directors)
Written by	Several
Release date	1995 (1995)

The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules:^[3]

A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
Nosynchronized sound
No more than three takes

Directors

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Summary

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Patrice Leconte: A recreation of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat 100 years later at the same station.
Gabriel Axel: The evolution of the arts is shown, culminating in cinema. Then, two men shoot each other in a duel.
Claude Miller: A girl is repeatedly pushed off a scale by others, before a man picks her up and puts her on his shoulders before getting on the scale.
Jacques Rivette: A girl plays hopscotch while a woman roller-skates. The roller-skating woman collides with a man reading a newspaper.
Michael Haneke: Various shots of TV news on March 19, 1995, exactly 100 years after the filming of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat.
Fernando Trueba: Felix Romero, A conscientious objector who has refused to partake in Spanish military service, departs from a prison in Zaragoza.
Merzak Allouache: A couple walk through a park and notice the camera. They both examine it before the man shoves the woman out of the way.
Raymond Depardon: Children use a ladder to put a hat on top of a large statue.
Wim Wenders: Two men examine a cityscape.
Jaco Van Dormael: A smiling couple kiss.
Nadine Trintignant: Tourists wander around the courtyard of the Louvre.
Régis Wargnier: A man in a park walks toward the camera. Voiceover recollects a scene from a film.
Hugh Hudson: Japanese schoolchildren in Hiroshima visit a monument. Audio from news reports of the bombing of Hiroshima plays.
Zhang Yimou: A man plays a traditional Chinese bowed musical instrument while a woman dances. They switch from their traditional clothing to punk fashion and the man plays a guitar while the woman thrashes her head.
Liv Ullmann: Cinematographer Sven Nykvist operates his camera.
Vicente Aranda: A victory parade drives through the street.
Lucian Pintilie: People climb into a helicopter. The helicopter lifts off.
John Boorman: Behind-the-scenes of the filming of Michael Collins.
Claude Lelouch: A couple embraces as various camera crews move around them.
Abbas Kiarostami: An egg fries on a skillet. A voicemail plays.
Lasse Hallström: A woman with a baby waves at a passing train.
Costa-Gavras: Various young adults gather around to look at the camera.
Yoshishige Yoshida: Alternates between a shot of Yoshida with the camera and a destroyed building in Hiroshima while the sound of an explosion is heard.
Idrissa Ouedraogo: A man goes for a swim in a river before being scared off by another man wearing a mask.
Gaston Kaboré: Outside of a cinema, a group of friends with a camera discover a truck full of filmstrips.
Youssef Chahine: Two men film the Pyramids of Giza. Another man runs up the them and destroys their camera before storming off.
Helma Sanders-Brahms: A tribute to Louis Cochet - a man directs lighting equipment next to a waterfall.
Francis Girod: A large image of a television displaying a director in his chair is painted over with white paint.
Cédric Klapisch: A man and a woman attempt to act out a scene where they embrace.
Alain Corneau: A woman dances as her clothes rapidly change colors.
Merchant & Ivory: People wander the city streets of Paris.
Jerry Schatzberg: A garbage worker puts trash in the back of his truck. A woman gets into an argument with him when she doesn't want to give up her trash.
Spike Lee: Footage of his newly-born daughter, Satchel Lee.
Andrei Konchalovsky: In a natural landscape, the carcass of an animal slowly decays.
Peter Greenaway: Various images, including the Lumière brothers, various years, a nude man sitting in a chair
Bigas Luna: A nude woman sitting in a field nurses a baby.
Arthur Penn: A man tied to a bed screams out. In the bunk above him is a pregnant woman.
David Lynch: Police discover a murder victim and inform the family.
Theo Angelopoulos: Homer wakes up on a rocky seashore. In his attempts to figure out where he is, he stares down the camera.

References

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^ Wheeler W. Dixon (28 February 2000). The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image. SUNY Press. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-7914-4516-7.

^ Negar Mottahedeh (24 October 2008). Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-8223-8119-8.

^ Cynthia Fuchs (2002). Spike Lee: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-1-57806-470-0.

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