Lumiere et Compagnie - Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
(1995)
(1 hour and 28 minutes, black & white, colour)
Produced by Ángel Amigo, Anne Andreu, Neal Edelstein, Fabienne Servan-Schreiber and Soren
Starmose.
Original music by Jean-Jacques Lemetre and Richard Robbins (segment "Merchant &
Ivory").
Non-original music by Georges Bizet (from "Carmen").
...aka "Lumiere y companía" (1996) (Spain: dubbed version) and "Lumiere
and Company" (1995).
Directed by
- Merzak Allouache
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Vicente Aranda
- Gabriel Axel
- J.J. Bigas Luna
- John Boorman
- Youssef Chahine
- Alain Corneau
- Costa-Gavras
- Raymond Depardon
- Jaco van Dormael
- Francis Girod
- Peter Greenaway
- Lasse Hallström
- Michael Haneke
- Hugh Hudson
- James Ivory
- Gaston Kaboré
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cédric Klapisch
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Patrice Leconte
- Spike Lee
- Claude Lelouch
- David Lynch
- Ismail Merchant
- Claude Miller
- Sarah Moon
- Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Arthur Penn
- Lucian Pintilie
- Jacques Rivette
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Jerry Schatzberg
- Nadine Trintignant
- Fernando Trueba
- Liv Ullmann
- Régis Wargnier
- Wim Wenders
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Yimou Zhang
"Lumiere et Compagnie" is a film by Sarah Mohn. It was screened at the 46th
Berlin International Film Festival in 1996. This film was made for the 100 year
anniversary of the historical Lumiere camera. 40 directors (David Lynch was one of them)
made 52 second film segments using the original Lumiere camera. The film contains those
films as well as interview snips with the directors and on location footage.
They asked David Lynch only one question: "Why do you make movies?",
and he answered: "I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I
like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you
dream...allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside
the world of film."
Besides the limited length of 52 seconds (one shot, not edited), the films had to be
shot in "natural" light and without sound (just like the Lumiere brothers had to
work 100 years ago).
Lynch's contribution to this film is entitled "Premonitions Following an Evil
Deed"
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
(55 seconds, colour).
Directed by David Lynch.
Produced by Neal Edelstein.
- Jeff Alperi, Mark Wood, Stan Lothridge - Cops
- Russ Pearlman - Dead Son
- Pam Pierrocish - Mother
- Clyde Small - Father
- Joan Rurdlestein, Michele Carlyle, Kathleen Raymond - Women
- Dawn Salcedo - Woman in Tank
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