The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

  • Rated 7.2 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2021
  • 53m
  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie

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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Director
Stefan Cornic
Starring
Vimala Pons, Bertrand Lemoine, Vanessa Schwartz, Tacita Dean

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

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