(LUMIÈRE ! L’AVENTURE CONTINUE)

With commentary by Frémaux and music by Gabriel Fauré, we celebrate Louis Lumière, cinema’s first true filmmaker, who shaped its language and created a vision of the world that cannot be separated from its mode of representation. This feature-length film is composed of 120 fifty-second films shot between 1895–1905 by Lumière and his operators, revealing, with hypnotic beauty and breathtaking details, a vivid spectacle of the turn of the century world. About ten of these were filmed in 75mm, but were never seen as they couldn’t be projected. But now, digitally restored, we see them for the first time.

A selection of short films, made in Dublin in 1897 by Alexander Promio, an agent of the Lumière Brother, will screen before each film. They are among the oldest moving images made in Ireland and 35mm film copies are preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Screening as part of the Lumiére programme at IFI French Film Festival 2025.