Lumière, Le Cinéma! — A Guided Tour of the Lumière Shorts
Thierry Frémaux curates over a hundred Lumière shorts—famous, forgotten and previously unseen—revealing how the brothers and their operators shaped early filmmaking.
Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux guides viewers through more than a hundred short films—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by the Lumière brothers and their collaborators. Frémaux demonstrates how the brothers and their operators used the camera as a creative instrument, mastering framing, staging and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries and the first fictional motion pictures.