Cinematograph (2018)
The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film archive has traveled through time since 1925, traveling between different conservation sites before finally being stored in the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Every degradation of the image is the result of a natural decomposition, the filmmaker makes no gesture of alteration of the image.
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The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film archive has traveled through time since 1925, traveling between different conservation sites before finally being stored in the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Every degradation of the image is the result of a natural decomposition, the filmmaker makes no gesture of alteration of the image.