The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

Overview

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.

Directed by Stefan Cornic

Top cast

Vimala Pons

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Lemoine

Self - Architecture Historian

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Vanessa Schwartz

Self - Art Historian

Tacita Dean

Self - Artist

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Paul Perrin

Self - Painting Curator

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Mark Lewis

Self - Artist

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Dominique Païni

Self - Film Curator

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Marie Robert

Self - Photo Curator

Thierry Frémaux

Self - Institut Lumière Director

Christian Petzold

Self - Filmmaker

Olivier Assayas

Self - Filmmaker

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