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