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Lumière and Company

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1995 Danish film

Lumière and Company

Written by	Philippe Poulet
Produced by	Neal Edelstein Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
Starring	Pascal Duquenne Sven Nykvist Lena Olin Nathalie Richard
Cinematography	Peter Deming Didier Ferry Frédéric LeClair Jean-Yves Le Mener Sarah Moon Sven Nykvist Philippe Poulet
Edited by	Roger Ikhlef Timothy Miller
Music by	Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Distributed by	Pierre Grise Distribution
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	Denmark France Spain Sweden
Languages	Danish English French Greek Japanese Mandarin Norwegian Swedish

Lumière and Company (original title:Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one internationalfilm directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the originalCinématographe camera invented by theAuguste and Louis Lumière.^[1]^[2]

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 threetakes

Directors

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Summary

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Patrice Leconte: A recreation ofL'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 ofL'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 inZaragoza.
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 theLouvre.
Régis Wargnier:François Mitterrand in a park walks toward the camera. Voiceover recollects a scene from a film.
Hugh Hudson: Japanese schoolchildren inHiroshima visit a monument. Audio from news reports of thebombing 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 ofMichael 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 thePyramids of Giza. Another man runs up to 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 ofParis.
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 theAugust and Louis Lumière, 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:Odysseus 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.

External links

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Directors

Films directed byTheo Angelopoulos

Broadcast (1968)
The Reconstitution (1970)
Days of '36 (1972)
The Travelling Players (1975)
The Hunters (1977)
Alexander the Great (1980)
Athens (1983)
Voyage to Cythera (1984)
The Beekeeper (1986)
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Lumière and Company (segment, 1995)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004)
The Dust of Time (2007)
"Three Minutes" inTo Each His Own Cinema (2007)
"Sky Below" inInvisible World (2011)

Films directed byGabriel Axel

Altid ballade (1955)
En kvinde er overflødig (1957)
The Girls Are Willing (1958)
Helle for Helene (1959)
Flemming og Kvik (1960)
Crazy Paradise (1962)
Oskar (1962)
Vi har det jo dejligt (1963)
Three Girls in Paris (1963)
Paradise and Back (1964)
Hagbard and Signe (1967)
Det kære legetøj (1968)
Amour (1970)
Med kærlig hilsen (1971)
Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves (1972)
Familien Gyldenkål (1975)
The Goldcabbage Family Breaks the Bank (1976)
Going for Broke (1977)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Christian (1989)
Prince of Jutland (1994)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Leïla (2001)

Films directed byYoussef Chahine

v t e Films directed byAlain Corneau
Police Python 357 (1975) La Menace (1977) Série noire (1979) Choice of Arms (1981) Fort Saganne (1984) Nocturne Indien (1989) Tous les Matins du Monde (1991) New World (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) Le cousin (1997) Le Prince du Pacifique (2000) Fear and Trembling (2003) Words in Blue (2005) Love Crime (2010)

v t e Costa-Gavras
Filmography Awards
Films	The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) Shock Troops (1967) Z (1969) The Confession (1970) State of Siege (1972) Special Section (1975) Womanlight (1979) Missing (1982) Hanna K. (1983) Family Business (1986) Betrayed (1988) Music Box (1989) The Little Apocalypse (1993) Mad City (1997) Amen. (2002) The Axe (2005) Eden Is West (2009) Capital (2012) Adults in the Room (2019) Last Breath (2024)
Short films	Against Oblivion (segment; 1991) À propos de Nice, la suite (segment; 1995) Lumière and Company (segment, 1995)
Related	Michèle Ray-Gavras Alexandre Gavras Julie Gavras Romain Gavras

v t e Michael Haneke
Awards and nominations Bibliography
Feature films	The Seventh Continent (1989) Benny's Video (1992) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) Funny Games (1997) Code Unknown (2000) The Piano Teacher (2001) Time of the Wolf (2003) Caché (2005) Funny Games (2007) The White Ribbon (2009) Amour (2012) Happy End (2017)
Television	The Castle (1997)
Short films	Lumière and Company (segment "Michael Haneke/Vienne") (1995)
Related	Michael H – Profession: Director (2013)

v t e Films directed byHugh Hudson
Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora (1981, documentary) Chariots of Fire (1981) Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Revolution (1985) Lost Angels (1989) My Life So Far (1999) I Dreamed of Africa (2000) Rupture: Living With My Broken Brain (2012, documentary) Altamira (2016)

Abbas Kiarostami

Films directed

Feature	The Experience (1973) The Traveler (1974) A Wedding Suit (1976) The Report (1977) First Case, Second Case (1979) Fellow Citizen (1983) First Graders (1984) Where Is the Friend's House? (1987) Homework (1989) Close-Up (1990) And Life Goes On (1992) Through the Olive Trees (1994) Taste of Cherry (1997) The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) ABC Africa (2001) Ten (2002) Five (2003) 10 on Ten (2004) Shirin (2008) Certified Copy (2010) Like Someone in Love (2012) 24 Frames (2017)
Short	The Bread and Alley Breaktime So Can I Two Solutions for One Problem Colors Tribute to the Teachers Solution Toothache Orderly or Disorderly The Chorus Roads of Kiarostami
Segment	"Dinner for One" inLumière and Company Middle section inTickets "Where Is My Romeo?" inTo Each His Own Cinema

Screenplays

Related topics

Koker trilogy

Books

Lessons with Kiarostami

Category

v t e Films directed byCédric Klapisch
Riens du tout (1992) Le Péril jeune (1994) Lumière and Company (1995) When the Cat's Away (1996) Family Resemblances (1996) Peut-être (1999) L'Auberge espagnole (2002) Not For, or Against (2003) Russian Dolls (2005) Paris (2008) My Piece of the Pie (2011) Chinese Puzzle (2013) Back to Burgundy (2017) Someone, Somewhere (2019) Rise (2022) Colours of Time (2025)

v t e Films byAndrei Konchalovsky
Feature films	The First Teacher (1965) The Story of Asya Klyachina (1966) A Nest of Gentry (1969) Uncle Vanya (1970) A Lover's Romance (1974) Siberiade (1979) Maria's Lovers (1984) Runaway Train (1985) Duet for One (1986) Shy People (1987) Homer and Eddie (1989) Tango & Cash (1989) The Inner Circle (1991) Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs (1994) House of Fools (2002) Gloss (2007) The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) The Postman's White Nights (2014) Paradise (2016) Sin (2019) Dear Comrades! (2020)
Short films	The Boy and the Dove (1961) Lumière and Company (segment; 1995) To Each His Own Cinema (segment: "Dans le Noir"; 2007)
Television	The Odyssey (1997) The Lion in Winter (2003)
Screenplays	The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Andrei Rublev (1966) The Seventh Bullet (1972) The Ferocious One (1974) A Slave of Love (1976) Moscow Chill (2007) The Demons of St. Petersberg (story; 2008)

David Lynch

Directorial
works

Feature films	Eraserhead (1977) The Elephant Man (1980) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) Wild at Heart (1990) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Lost Highway (1997) The Straight Story (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) Inland Empire (2006)
Short films	Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1967) The Alphabet (1968) The Grandmother (1970) The Amputee (1974) The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995) Darkened Room (2002) Bug Crawls (2007) Boat (2007) Absurda (2007) Lady Blue Shanghai (2010) Idem Paris (2013) What Did Jack Do? (2017)
Music videos	"Wicked Game" (1990) "Longing" (1995) "Shot in the Back of the Head" (2009) "Came Back Haunted" (2013)
Concert films	Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1990) Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011)

Television

Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
On the Air (1992)
Hotel Room (1993)
DumbLand (2002)
Rabbits (2002)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Albums

Studio albums	BlueBOB (2001) Polish Night Music (2007) Crazy Clown Time (2011) The Big Dream (2013) Thought Gang (2018) Cellophane Memories (2024)
Soundtrack albums	Eraserhead (1982) The Air Is on Fire (2007) Twin Peaks Music: Season Two Music and More (2007)

Books

Awards by film

The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet

v t e Films directed byIdrissa Ouédraogo
Yam Daabo (1986) Yaaba (1989) Tilaï (1990) Samba Traoré (1993) The Heart's Cry (1994) Lumière and Company (1995) Kini and Adams (1997) 11′09″01 September 11 (2002) Anger of the Gods (2003)

Films byJacques Rivette

Fool's Mate (1956)
Paris Belongs to Us (1960)
The Nun (1966)
L'Amour fou (1969)
Out 1 (1971)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Duelle (1976)
Noroît (1976)
Merry-Go-Round (1981)
Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Love on the Ground (1984)
Hurlevent (1985)
Gang of Four (1989)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
Joan the Maid (1994)
Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
"Une aventure de Ninon" inLumière and Company (1995)
Secret Defense (1998)
Va savoir (2001)
The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Around a Small Mountain (2009)

v t e Films directed byHelma Sanders-Brahms
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975) Earthquake in Chile (1975) Heinrich [de] (1977) Germany, Pale Mother (1980) No Mercy, No Future (1981) The Future of Emily (1984) Laputa (1986) Apple Trees (1992) Lumière and Company (1995) My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997) Geliebte Clara (2008)

Films directed byFernando Trueba

v t e Films directed byJaco Van Dormael
Feature films	Toto the Hero (1991) The Eighth Day (1996) Mr. Nobody (2009) The Brand New Testament (2015)
Short films	Maedeli la brèche (1980) Stade 81 (1981) L'imitateur (1982) È pericoloso sporgersi (1984) The Kiss (1995)

v t e Films directed byRégis Wargnier
La Femme de ma vie (1986) Je suis le seigneur du château (1989) Indochine (1992) A French Woman (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) East/West (1999) Man to Man (2005) Have Mercy on Us All (2007) La Ligne droite (2011) The Gate (2014)

v t e Yoshishige Yoshida
Films	Blood Is Dry(1960) Bitter End of a Sweet Night(1961) Akitsu Springs(1962) A Story Written with Water(1965) Woman of the Lake(1966) The Affair(1967) Affair in the Snow(1968) Eros + Massacre(1969) Heroic Purgatory(1970) Coup d'État(1973) A Promise(1986) Wuthering Heights(1988) Lumière and Company(1995) Women in the Mirror(2002)
Book	Ozu's Anti-Cinema

Films directed byJames Ivory

The Householder (1963)
The Delhi Way (1964)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972)
Savages (1972)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
The Wild Party (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Le Divorce (2003)
The White Countess (2005)
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

v t e Films directed byBigas Luna
Poodle (1979) Reborn (1981) Lola (1986) Anguish (1987) The Ages of Lulu (1990) Jamón jamón (1992) Golden Balls (1993) The Tit and the Moon (1994) Lumière and Company (1995) Bambola (1996) The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997) Sound of the Sea (2001) My Name Is Juani (2006) Di Di Hollywood (2010)

Spike Lee

Films
directed

Feature films	She's Gotta Have It (1986) School Daze (1988) Do the Right Thing (1989) Mo' Better Blues (1990) Jungle Fever (1991) Malcolm X (1992) Crooklyn (1994) Clockers (1995) Girl 6 (1996) Get on the Bus (1996) He Got Game (1998) Summer of Sam (1999) Bamboozled (2000) 25th Hour (2002) She Hate Me (2004) Inside Man (2006) Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Red Hook Summer (2012) Oldboy (2013) Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) Chi-Raq (2015) BlacKkKlansman (2018) Da 5 Bloods (2020) Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Documentaries and filmed staged productions	4 Little Girls (1997) John Leguizamo: Freak (1998) The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) Jim Brown: All-American (2002) When the Levees Broke (2006) Kobe Doin' Work (2009) Passing Strange (2009) If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) Bad 25 (2012) Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) Rodney King (2017) Pass Over (2018) American Utopia (2020)
Other films	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) Lumière and Company (1995, segment) The Concert for New York City (2001, segment "Come Rain or Come Shine") Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed") All the Invisible Children (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America")