
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.
Top 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
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