Description
Everyone knows “Arrival of a Train” and “The Sprinkler Sprinkled”, but the Lumière brothers’ filmography contains hundreds more works seen only by experts. To set the record straight, Thierry Frémaux—director of the Lumière Institute in Lyon and of the Cannes Film Festival—has already made his second feature-length film composed of one-minute shorts by the cinema’s inventors, accompanied by his own commentary. Frémaux is convinced: the Lumières were not merely engineers. They were artists, and in their brief sketches one can already glimpse the outlines of the entire subsequent history of cinema.
About the director:
Thierry Frémaux
General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival (since 2007), Director of the Lumière Institute. Born in 1960. Studied social history. Has worked at the Lumière Institute since its founding in 1982, appointed Artistic Director in 1995. In 1999 he was invited to serve as Artistic Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, officially overseeing the festival programme starting with the 57th edition. He opened Cannes to animation, genre cinema, and documentaries, and introduced the Cannes Classics section. Since 2009 Thierry Frémaux has organised the Lumière Festival in Lyon. His documentary Lumière! The Adventure of Cinema Begins was released in 2017.