Gérard Courant Movies

An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.

Reel 1 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend...

Reel 19 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer...

Reel 31 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 3 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with...

Reel 37 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 21 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Sha-Dada is an "expanded" film on two screens which presents itself as a confrontation between two imperialisms.

A woman's face under the light of life.