The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
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The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

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.

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Cast

  • Vimala Pons
    Vimala Pons
    Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Bertrand Lemoine
    Bertrand Lemoine
    Self - Architecture Historian
  • Vanessa Schwartz
    Self - Art Historian
  • Tacita Dean
    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
    Thierry Frémaux
    Self - Institut Lumière Director
  • Christian Petzold
    Christian Petzold
    Self - Filmmaker
  • Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas
    Self - Filmmaker

Crew

  • Marie Garreau de Labarre
    Production Director
  • Adrien Guilloteau
    Editor
  • Thomas Bordier
    Animation
  • Laëtitia Pansanel-Garric
    Laëtitia Pansanel-Garric
    Original Music Composer
  • Christine Hamon
    Researcher
  • Sébastien Bergé
    Camera Operator
  • Cécile Bodénès
    Camera Operator
  • Gábor Hollós
    Camera Operator
  • Matthew Marschner
    Camera Operator
  • Thierry Vivier
    Camera Operator
  • Benoît Héry
    Sound Editor
  • Benoît Héry
    Sound Mixer
  • Guillermo Fernandez
    Color Grading
  • Guillaume Parrain
    Post Production Supervisor
  • Éric Wattinne
    Post Production Supervisor
  • Luc Lacoste
    Post Production Supervisor
  • Jacques Roudman
    In Memory Of
  • Stefan Cornic
    Director
  • Jean-Marie Nizan
    Producer

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