Birth

I recently stumbled upon the 1995 documentary film 'Lumiere et Compagnie', a film that looked back to the Lumiere Brothers and the birth of cinema and so I thought this was the appropriate first post my blog was looking for.

For cinema's 100th birthday a French man (Philipe Poulet) brought together 40 filmmakers and challenged each of them to create a short film using the first ever motion picture camera. The restraints the 'Cinematograph' imposes are a 50 second roll of film and no synch audio.

The result is a collection of gorgeous vignettes intercut with philosophical questions asked to the filmmakers about filmmaking and cinema. Accompanying the questions there is hi-8 video footage from behind the scenes and a collection of stunning photography, black and white medium format portraits of filmmaker and camera.