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Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Thierry Frémaux presents over a hundred Lumière shorts, revealing how the brothers pioneered cinematic framing, staging and subject choice.

Event Apr 24, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT | ArtsQuest Events

Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux guides viewers through more than a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some previously unseen—directed by the Lumière brothers and their collaborators. He illuminates how the brothers and their operators used the camera as a creative instrument, mastering framing, staging and subject selection for everyday and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first fictional motion pictures.