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.
Top Billed 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
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