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