Gérard Courant
Birthday: 1951-12-04
Place of Birth: Lyon, France
Biography: Gérard Courant is a French filmmaker, writer, actor, poet and independent producer born on December 4, 1951 in Lyon, France. He is the son of the writer and historian René Courant. He is one of the most prolific filmmakers of cinema. He created, directed and produced Cinématon, the longest film in the world (over 200 hours long). In all, he has shot nearly 7,000 filmed portraits and a very large number of other films (more than 1,000) since the mid-1970s. He has also published several books on cinema.
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Les Jours et les Nuits
I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), ...
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About Greece
Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, po...
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Le Passeur immobile
Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the ...
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Un débat À travers l'univers
"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the wor...
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Encore Cinématé !
Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film...
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Coude à coude
Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, ...
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Lady Usher's Diary
Loosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing atmos...
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Litan
Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque...
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Un film (autoportrait)
The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of N...
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Amours décolorées
Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, danc...
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Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpic...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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My Conversations on Film
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be mi...
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Up and Down
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skil...
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La Neige tremblait sur les arbres
A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s....
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The Case of the Morituri Divisions
The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of th...
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a f...
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Omelette
A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He ...
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Paradise Hotel
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives i...
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Trying to Describe Oneself
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to des...
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Journey to the Center of the World
Voyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the govern...
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Hérésie pour Magritte IV
Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poste...
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Vivre à Naples et Mourir (Entretien avec Werner Schroeter)
"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me ...
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Genova Genova
A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the...
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Périssable Paradis
15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions....
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2000 Cinématons
A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality port...
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Mes films commencent au moment où les autres se terminent (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez I)
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L’Art, c’est se perdre dans les châteaux du rêve (entretien avec Philippe Garrel III)
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L’oeuvre d’art est utile car elle consolide notre liberté (entretien avec Philippe Garrel IV)
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Un cinéaste qui ne tient pas la caméra est comme un peintre qui ne tient pas le pinceau (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez II)
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In Memoriam Marcel Hanoun
On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this compan...
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L'Artifice et le factice
"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31...
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Alicudi 1 Bella
A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily....
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Nuits transparentes
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montrea...
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Lucy en Miroir
The fortuitous meeting of two women to the identical first name, Lucy, who formerly loved the same m...
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Autour de Vent-Pire
"Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film that...
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Les deux Lucy
Les Deux Lucy is a short documentary portrait of the shooting of Raphaël Bassan's film Lucy en miroi...
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Otage
Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbab...
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Portraits / Mirrors
A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual...
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Certains tombent en amour...
Six other months of my life (December 1979 – June 1980), from one decade to the next, a trip to Queb...
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Le Nouvel Hiver
Le Nouvel Hiver is a slightly disillusioned reflection on the state of the world (the fall of the Be...
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Mort de trois présidents à vie
The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent se...
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Eugénie de Franval par Louis Skorecki
This film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, ...
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Autour de 24 Passions
Autour de 24 Passions is the making-of of my film 24 Passions . It was shot in 2003, on the occasion...
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Petit Traité de Chevalerie Morlock en Vélocipède
Two Morlock cyclists challenge each other in the passes of the Massif Central. Their duel is nightma...
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Andy Warhol, Gregory Markopoulos et Cinématon au Jeu de paume
The Jeu de Paume in Paris (France) presented an Oscar Muñoz exhibition from June 3 to September 21, ...
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Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon
Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon is the recording of this radio programme - a first for Gérard Co...
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Car seuls les dieux ont mordu la pomme de l'amour
The ending of filming 24 passions over 24 years in Burzet (France). Shot on a silver film, it takes ...
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop c...
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Cinématé !
This unofficial Cinématon is one of two that Gérard Courant filmed on January 25, 2001. The second C...
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Le tournage du Cinématon n°1968 de Joseph Morder
The filming of Joseph Morder's Cinématon n°1968....
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