Frames of Mind
Silent Cinema
Screening on Film
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First Program of the Lumière Brothers
Directed by Louis and Auguste Lumière.
France, 1895, black & white, silent, 9 min.
Six weeks before the Lumière brothers' legendary screening in Paris of the "first" motion picture, three German brothers in Berlin screened eight film loops. In between the acrobatics and juggling that also occupied their life, Max, Eugen, and Emil Skladanowsky had invented the Bioskop. A century later, internationally renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders brings these little-known pioneers to the fore with this whimsical and touching film. With the help of his students from the Munich Film Academy, Wenders captures their story with a mix of documentary and recreated footage—much of it shot silent at eighteen frames per second with a vintage hand-cranked camera.