Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
Directed by Peter Tscherkassky
Produced by sixpackfilm, Light Cone
A conceptual reinterpretation of cinema's foundational moment, treating a historic frame as a musical score to be read and reconstructed through experimental darkroom technique.
In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.
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Questions people ask
Is Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) scary? No. Less frightening than 98% of films.
Is Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.
Is Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.
Does Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.
Is Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory) easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.
Cinnamon Score
How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.
Conventional, and it does not land.
How unlike any other film this one feels
How much more it delivers than it promises
How much audiences actually like it
Like Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
Nearest across the full emotional profile.
Same Mood as Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)
Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.
Like Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory), But Darker
Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.
Like Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory), But Lighter
Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.
Like Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory), But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
