Les Amis De Cinematon Movies

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

Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.

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

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 38 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

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

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

Zones césariennes (which covers the year 2002) is one of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot on film. These episodes now coexist...

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

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.

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

Voyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the government of the Republika Serbska, the film brought...

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for 15 years.

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

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

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

Le Nouvel Hiver is a slightly disillusioned reflection on the state of the world (the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the USSR, the Gulf War),...