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The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021)

0h 53m | PG-13

⭐ 7.2 / 10

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.

Director: Stefan Cornic

Studio: ARTE

Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie

Video: 720p

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Cast

Vimala Pons

Vimala Pons

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Lemoine

Bertrand Lemoine

as Self - Architecture Historian

Vanessa Schwartz

Vanessa Schwartz

as Self - Art Historian

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean

as Self - Artist

Paul Perrin

Paul Perrin

as Self - Painting Curator

Mark Lewis

Mark Lewis

as Self - Artist