I've seen a few films like this that take the idea of an anthology film to its limits, principally by having each short only run for a minute or two while getting some of the biggest filmmakers of the world to do each one.
Of these, Lumiere and Company feels like the most interesting, and tasked a bunch of big-name directors like Spike Lee, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Wim Wenders, Yimou Zhang, James Ivory, and Michael Haneke to use 100-year-old filmmaking technology to make short films that could only be 50-something seconds long (there are a total of 40 filmmakers, I believe)
Apparently another rule was that the shorts couldn't have synchronised sound, but I guess I'll have to admit I don't know what makes sound synchronised, because there was definitely sound effects and human voices heard throughout.
It was an overall nice way to commemorate 100 years of cinema, and those shorts that didn't quite work were so short they barely matter. Interestingly, there are only a few filmmakers whose voices shine through with the restraints. It might not be the right take away, but it made me think about how much various filmmakers need technology to thrive and have a distinct voice.
Consequently, it also makes me feel bad for all those people that could've made amazing movies in the 1990s or 2000s, only they were born 100 years too early and had to settle for making films in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s.
Of these, Lumiere and Company feels like the most interesting, and tasked a bunch of big-name directors like Spike Lee, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Wim Wenders, Yimou Zhang, James Ivory, and Michael Haneke to use 100-year-old filmmaking technology to make short films that could only be 50-something seconds long (there are a total of 40 filmmakers, I believe)
Apparently another rule was that the shorts couldn't have synchronised sound, but I guess I'll have to admit I don't know what makes sound synchronised, because there was definitely sound effects and human voices heard throughout.
It was an overall nice way to commemorate 100 years of cinema, and those shorts that didn't quite work were so short they barely matter. Interestingly, there are only a few filmmakers whose voices shine through with the restraints. It might not be the right take away, but it made me think about how much various filmmakers need technology to thrive and have a distinct voice.
Consequently, it also makes me feel bad for all those people that could've made amazing movies in the 1990s or 2000s, only they were born 100 years too early and had to settle for making films in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s.