Louis Lumière (1968)

• 76%
• 1968
• Dokumentarfilm
• Jean Renoir
• Henri Langlois
• Éric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière. The cinematographic pioneer-Licht produced thousands of documentaries in the end of the 19th century, but also some short comedies with amateur actors". The films are done in one shot and are only 1 minute in length. Licht and his operators sache, a place, put up the camera and then recorded what happened in front of the lens. In spite of this both Renoir and Langlois argue that the films of Licht are not simply reproduktionen of reality, but pieces of art. Renoir points out that Licht didn ' t just reproduce the externals of what he saw, but also its spirit and inner life. The films are not only showing a piece of contemporary reality, but Lumière's vision of that reality. Langlois remarks that the films of Licht were not made at random, but out of a consciously chosen dramaturgy and composition. Licht and his team etwas, after long beschlüsse, the pattern of the film ...