Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
Cast
Vimala Pons
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bertrand Lemoine
Self - Architecture Historian
Vanessa Schwartz
Self - Art Historian
Tacita Dean
Self - Artist
Paul Perrin
Self - Painting Curator
Mark Lewis
Self - Artist
Dominique Païni
Self - Film Curator
Marie Robert
Self - Photo Curator
Thierry Frémaux
Self - Institut Lumière Director
Christian Petzold
Self - Filmmaker
Olivier Assayas
Self - Filmmaker
Crew
Stefan Cornic
Director
Adrien Guilloteau
Editor
Guillermo Fernandez
Color Grading
Jean-Marie Nizan
Producer
Sébastien Bergé
Camera Operator
Cécile Bodénès
Camera Operator
Gábor Hollós
Camera Operator
Matthew Marschner
Camera Operator
Thierry Vivier
Camera Operator
Guillaume Parrain
Post Production Supervisor
Éric Wattinne
Post Production Supervisor
Luc Lacoste
Post Production Supervisor
Thomas Bordier
Animation
Benoît Héry
Sound Editor, Sound Mixer
Laëtitia Pansanel-Garric
Original Music Composer
Jacques Roudman
In Memory Of
Marie Garreau de Labarre
Production Director
Christine Hamon
Researcher
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