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.
Vimala Pons
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bertrand Lemoine
as Self - Architecture Historian
Vanessa Schwartz
as Self - Art Historian
Tacita Dean
as Self - Artist
Paul Perrin
as Self - Painting Curator
Mark Lewis
as Self - Artist
Dominique Païni
as Self - Film Curator
Marie Robert
as Self - Photo Curator
Thierry Frémaux
as Self - Institut Lumière Director
Christian Petzold
as Self - Filmmaker
Olivier Assayas
as Self - Filmmaker
