Gérard Courant Movies

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Promenade through the Eastern surburb of Paris (Montreuil-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Vincennes). From rural districts to the interchanges.

"In this journey, Courant's heroine wanders through the clouds and Pyrenees mountains way after the world's destruction [...] Songs by Brigitte...

Reel 28 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema...

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

Reel 2 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

This episode of Carnets filmés, Délices lointains, which spans the year 2004, reaches its climax in its last part with my trip to...

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Snowfalls: their rhythm has been reworked creating a hypnotic effect.

Aurore collective is composed of 50 sequences filmed in Dijon and Paris (successive places of residence of the filmmaker), Chalon-sur-Saône,...

Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a...

"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along...

Reel 32 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

Reel 10 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Hitch x 4 is a filmed portrait of Alfred Hitchcock which, in a screen divided into four equal parts, brings together Gérard Courant's special...