Everything that is not the fruit of experimentation is riddled with errors or frivolity. Experimentation is the key to all knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci.

The Clermont-Ferrand festival is perhaps the most important short film competition in the world. Several pieces of work ... (+ info)

Over the past seven years the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival "Labo" competition has become one of the most important yardsticks for gauging international trends and perspectives in cinematography.

For a long time Clermont-Ferrand lagged behind the Rotterdam Festival wi... (+ info)

"Watering the Gardener" by the Lumière brothers is considered the first fictional film in the history of cinema. In the film a boy sneaks up to a gardener watering his plants with a hose. The boy steps on the hose without the gardener seeing him, preventing the water from flowing. The gardener fi... (+ info)