Gérard Courant Movies

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“Les Malheurs de Marc Allégret” shows the ravages of time on the rushes of the unfinished film “Les Corsaires” which...

Ventus is a film made up of a single, half-hour-long, fixed sequence shot that shows the effects of wind on trees in the village of Priay, in the Ain...

French sculptor César Baldaccini, commonly known as just César (1921-1998), began creating his “directed compressions” of...

Direction Sud-Est follows L'Anniversaire de Bambou, the previous installment in Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés. It revisits some of...

"Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film that Gérard Courant shot on November 12, 1970...

Portrait of French actor and filmmaker Jacques Robiolles, shot in Lingreville (France) on January 15, 2002 at 7:00 PM.

Portrait of Nicole-Lise Bernheim

Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker...

Portrait of French filmmaker Jackie Raynal shot in West Berlin (FRG) on February 24, 1981 at 11:50 AM.

Le Voyageur sans Ombre is a sort of antechamber to Aventures d'Eddie Turley. We can follow step by step the progress of the filming with Philip...

Les Malheurs d'Urban Gad shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film Afgrunden that Urban Gad shot in 1910. By selecting and slowing down the...

Pluvia is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, half an hour long, which shows a storm and rain in the village of Priay, in the Ain...

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°2000 portrait by Gérard Courant on January 1, 2000 in Saint-Maurice, France.

Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°1463 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 14, 1990 in Saint-Maurice, France.

One year before starting his famous series "Cinematons", Gerard Courant had made an ancestor to this series: the portrait of Martine Rousset, filmed...

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°3000 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 4, 2017 in Montreuil-sous-Bois,...

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche...

Artemis is not a Cinématon in the strict sense of the term since the person being filmed - Artemis - is not an individual but a statue! This...

Portrait of actress Françoise Michaud, shot in Paris (France) on April 20, 1982 at 7:10 PM.