Lumière! The Adventure Begins
TBC 165 mins
TBC 165 mins
In collaboration with the Institut Français, Picturehouse Cinemas are thrilled to welcome Thierry Frémaux to Picturehouse Central for a special presentation of Lumière! The Adventure Begins, the 2016 film that marked Frémaux’s first journey into the work of the Lumières. Frémaux will introduce the film before taking part in a post-screening conversation with Picturehouse’s BAFTA-winning Creative Director, Clare Binns. As inventors of the cinematograph, Louis and August Lumière helped to define and create what we've come to know as cinema. With his expert commentary, Frémaux's film guides us through an expansive collection of restored Lumière shorts — some famous, some unseen until now – to explore how the earliest works of cinema continue to reverberate across the world of film today. For any film lover or film worker, this event at Picturehouse offers an opportunity to further reflect on titans of cinema past and present with Frémaux, whose work at Cannes and beyond, championing new voices and expanding viewers' horizons, has helped continue the Lumière legacy. This event has been enabled by the generous support of Unifrance.