Gérard Courant

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

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

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the...

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, 1996), in which journalist and...

Loosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing atmosphere surrounds Lady Usher's Diary. This slow and...

Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

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

30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of...

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

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

A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to...

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of the underworld. He ends up breaking down, caught in...

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

A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He films his parents and those close to him and...

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

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...

"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his...

A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills...

15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.

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

"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.

A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

The fortuitous meeting of two women to the identical first name, Lucy, who formerly loved the same man, Jonathan, induced, in this film, of the...

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

Les Deux Lucy is a short documentary portrait of the shooting of Raphaël Bassan's film Lucy en miroir. It's the opportunity for us to look at...

Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbable currency for terrorists...

A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris.

A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris.

A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris.

A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris.

A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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 6 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 6 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Early portrait of Ossang in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

"The Misfortunes of Paul Cadéac" shows the ravages of time on a copy of the film "Quai des blondes", the only realization that Paul...

"The Misfortunes of Paul Cadéac" shows the ravages of time on a copy of the film "Quai des blondes", the only realization that Paul...

"The Misfortunes of Paul Cadéac" shows the ravages of time on a copy of the film "Quai des blondes", the only realization that Paul...

"The Misfortunes of Paul Cadéac" shows the ravages of time on a copy of the film "Quai des blondes", the only realization that Paul...

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his...

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

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

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

Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.

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

The film shows this place where the author was a resident from January 4, 1966 to July 31, 1967.

Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.

Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and...

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

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

1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage...

1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage...

1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

In 2004 and 2005, I made a filmed inventory of the streets and squares of Saint-Marcellin, in the Dauphiné. This movie is called: Across the...

"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the...

In 2004 and 2005, I made a filmed inventory of the streets and squares of Saint-Marcellin, in the Dauphiné. This movie is called: Across the...

In 2004 and 2005, I made a filmed inventory of the streets and squares of Saint-Marcellin, in the Dauphiné. This movie is called: Across the...

"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the...

"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the...

"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the...

In 2004 and 2005, I made a filmed inventory of the streets and squares of Saint-Marcellin, in the Dauphiné. This movie is called: Across the...

"Le Départ de la 3ème étape Lagnieu-Oyonnax du Tour de l'Ain 2017" is an episode of the Carnets filmés by Gérard...

"Le Départ de la 2ème étape Ambérieu-en-Bugey-Saint-Vulbas du Tour de l’Ain 2017" is an episode of "Carnets...

"Le Départ de la 2ème étape Ambérieu-en-Bugey-Saint-Vulbas du Tour de l’Ain 2017" is an episode of "Carnets...

"Le Départ de la 2ème étape Ambérieu-en-Bugey-Saint-Vulbas du Tour de l’Ain 2017" is an episode of "Carnets...

"Le Départ de la 3ème étape Lagnieu-Oyonnax du Tour de l'Ain 2017" is an episode of the Carnets filmés by Gérard...

"Le Départ de la 2ème étape Ambérieu-en-Bugey-Saint-Vulbas du Tour de l’Ain 2017" is an episode of "Carnets...

"Le Départ de la 3ème étape Lagnieu-Oyonnax du Tour de l'Ain 2017" is an episode of the Carnets filmés by Gérard...

"Le Départ de la 3ème étape Lagnieu-Oyonnax du Tour de l'Ain 2017" is an episode of the Carnets filmés by Gérard...

À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks...

À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks...

À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks...

À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks...

"Compression de À travers l'univers" is the reduction of my film À travers l'univers from 1 hour to 18 minutes into a 4-minute movie. ...

"Compression de À travers l'univers" is the reduction of my film À travers l'univers from 1 hour to 18 minutes into a 4-minute movie. ...

A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers)...

"Compression de À travers l'univers" is the reduction of my film À travers l'univers from 1 hour to 18 minutes into a 4-minute movie. ...

A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers)...

"Compression de À travers l'univers" is the reduction of my film À travers l'univers from 1 hour to 18 minutes into a 4-minute movie. ...

A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers)...

A fake "Cinematon".

A fake "Cinematon".

A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers)...

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...

A fake "Cinematon".

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...

"Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl" shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film "Les Chapeaux des belles dames" which Émile Cohl shot in...

"Villagium" is a film made from a stationary one-and-a-half-hour shot, which shows the storm and the rain in the street, by the church in the village...

"Pons" is a film made of a single fixed-sequence shot, lasting half an hour, which shows the Ain river and the Priay bridge spanning it.

Filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of the village of Priay, the four pressurized water reactors at the Bugey nuclear power plant in...

One of Courant's many "Carnets filmés", filmed on November 7, 2021 in the botanical garden of l'Arquebuse in Dijon. The film is a slow...

One of Courant's many "Carnets filmés", filmed on November 7, 2021 in the botanical garden of l'Arquebuse in Dijon. The film is a slow...

"L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon" is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot of about twenty minutes, an exploration of the former...

"L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon" is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot of about twenty minutes, an exploration of the former...

"L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon" is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot of about twenty minutes, an exploration of the former...

"L'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon" is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot of about twenty minutes, an exploration of the former...

"Every Good Friday, since 1980, I film the ceremonial of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in the...

Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, 1996), in which journalist and...

Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, 1996), in which journalist and...

Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, 1996), in which journalist and...

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that...

"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that...

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that...

"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that...

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

A fusion of two Cinématons to celebrate the day of experimental cinema in Samawah, Iraq.

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

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

"Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé" shows the ravages of time on the film A Death Without Importance that Yvan Noé shot in 1948. By isolating and...

"Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé" shows the ravages of time on the film A Death Without Importance that Yvan Noé shot in 1948. By isolating and...

"Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé" shows the ravages of time on the film A Death Without Importance that Yvan Noé shot in 1948. By isolating and...

Every Good Friday, since 1980, I have filmed the reconstruction of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated...

Every Good Friday, since 1980, I have filmed the reconstruction of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated...

Every Good Friday, since 1980, I have filmed the reconstruction of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated...

"Lyon in 96 minutes" is, with a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot lasting one hour and 36 minutes, a stroll through the city of Lyon...

"Lyon in 96 minutes" is, with a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot lasting one hour and 36 minutes, a stroll through the city of Lyon...

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from the...

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from the...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from the...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from the...

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of...

The films of Marilyn Monroe, sped up by Gerard Courant.

"During the invitation to a film festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I presented the Cinématon and my feature film Blue Heart (which won a...

A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.

Compression The Birds de Alfred Hitchcock is the reduction of The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 masterpiece with Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, from a...

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? is a variation of Alfred Hitchcock's Cinématon hors collection directed by Gérard Courant on 14...

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...

Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon is the recording of this radio programme - a first for Gérard Courant - which allows him to talk...

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

In this new opus of the Carnets filmés we find his pronounced taste for travel (West Berlin, Marseille, the Pyrenees, the Southern Alps) and...

This film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, by Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard...

In this new opus of the Carnets filmés we find his pronounced taste for travel (West Berlin, Marseille, the Pyrenees, the Southern Alps) and...

Le Blanc Cassé is a pedestrian drift, camera in hand, which starts on rue Gazan in the 14th arrondissement and ends near the Palais de...

Printemps Météore continues to travel, meet people and shoot. Berlin again, Burzet (in the Ardèche), the Chartreuse massif and,...

The film is a cinematic stroll through the city of Genoa and an exploration of the alleys in the city centre. It also shows the palaces, churches and...

Plus mon Loir gaulois que le Tibre latin is a slow exploration of the snowy city, its surroundings, the banks of the Loire and the village of...

Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet is an audio interview with Luc Moullet recorded on 29 January 1979 by Gérard Courant for the magazine...

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

On 15 December 1980, Joseph Morder, with the joyful complicity of his Morlock compatriots, created the Morlock Academy in the salons of the Club...

Vivre à Naples et Mourir (Entretien avec Werner Schroeter) is the sound recording of this informal meeting, which took place on 20 May 1978...

Joseph Morder sur Radio Ark en Ciel is the sound recording of this meeting in which the filmmaker talks about his films and his famous Film Diary and...

Khrónos 1981 is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot entirely in Thessaloniki, Greece, in parallel with the filmmaker's...

Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation is the third of the four film encounters I have had with Werner Schroeter. Unlike the first two,...

Jean Seberg, Philippe Garrel et Les Hautes solitudes is composed of excerpts from four of my films about Philippe Garrel which concern his silent...

This is the sound recording of the interview that Michael Snow, filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and visual artist, gave to Gérard Courant...

Un jour l'hiver finira is an episode of Gérard Courant's filmed notebooks which is mainly devoted to the recording of three programmes on...

Die Reise nach Wien was filmed in parallel with the retrospective of Gérard Courant's films at the Studio Molière organised by the...

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),...

Études préparatoires pour "À propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary that is a summer journey through the Greek islands. ...

Esquisses Helléniques pour "A propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary which is a summer journey through the Greece of Athens and the...

Double Jeu is a filmed Notebook which covers the year 1989.

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

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

Histoires ordinaires is a filmed diary that covers the year 1990.

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

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...

Filmed on the Longchamp cycling circuit in Paris, the writer Olivier Dazat, author of the books Seigneurs et forçats du vélo (published...

La Terre des Vivants, is serenity in the midst of an increasingly fast-moving world. This new part of the Filmed Diaries is spread over only six...

Le Naufragé et le Prisonnier continue's my frenetic quest for travel and filming. This episode of the Filmed Notebooks is the continuation of...

Le Monde Impatient is an episode of the Filmed Diaries that takes place in New York on the occasion of my second visit to the city. It's a long...

Les Vivants et les morts begins with a long sequence in both Berlin, mainly West Berlin, where I stay the whole month of January, thanks to a grant...

Following on from Le Passé retrouvé, we find the same litanies that were the charm of the previous episodes: travel, the love of...

Filmed in parallel with the retrospective of Gérard Courant's films at the Studio Molière organised by the French Institute in Vienna. ...

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

Under the expert eye of Gérard Courant's camera, Janine Anquetil, the widow of cycling champion Jacques Anquetil, five-time winner of the Tour...

On the occasion of the shooting of his film Chambéry-Les Arcs, entirely devoted to his passion for cycling, Gérard Courant met the...

Et si on jouait? is the first episode of my Filmed Notebooks shot on video, whereas all the others were shot on film for nearly fifteen years.

L'Arbre de la Vie is, first of all, a summer trip to the island of Sifnos, Greece, then, in Paris, the film shows the preparations for the shooting...

Even if trips (Burzet, the Lac du Bourget, Geneva, Dijon, Normandy) punctuate La Marche du temps (1 April 1984 to 31 December 1984), this episode...

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours...

Le Passager Solitaire is a new drift through my favourite regions: Bugey, Vivarais, Burgundy but also Moscow, Kiev and... Saint-Maurice, in the Paris...

Mongibello is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot in Châteauroux, Paris, Taormina, Saint-Maurice, in the Vivarais...

Across the city, a Canadian megalopolis, Gérard Courant's images, blurred and faded, write the sound of Kraftwerck. Synthetic, techno... it...

There are certain recurring themes: travel, desolate landscapes (especially in the Vivarais region), love of the cinema, the pleasure of wandering...

This new episode of the Notebooks is entitled The New Desert (4 March 1998 to 26 November 1998). These are years of cinematographic maturity in a...

Iliana Lolic fait l'éloge de Luc Moullet is part of the Carnets filmés that Gérard Courant has been making since the 1970s. The...

Marie-Christine Questerbert narrates Luc Moullet is part of the Carnets filmés that Gérard Courant has been making since the 1970s. The...

Almost all of this episode of the Carnets filmés, with the evocative title, Tout est Brisé is devoted to the misdeeds of the storm of...

Florence Loiret-Caille, Cinématon n°2013 shows the aftermath and the filming of actress Florence Loiret-Caille's Cinématon on the...

Quand reverrai-je mon petit village is an episode of the Carnets filmés, which was filmed entirely in France and follows Route d'argent, which...

Le Pharaon à Lyon is an episode of the Carnets filmés which takes place in France: in the Champ du Feu in the Vosges mountains, in...

In the first part, I discuss with the author of the famous Diary filmed in a café in Place Saint-Michel to commemorate our first meeting, in...

Lucia Sanchez, "Cinématon" n° 2014 shows the behind-the-scenes and filming of actress Lucia Sanchez's Cinematon.

Route d'argent is a journey through three Atlantic Canadian provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The film takes in...

From Gérard Courant's Cinématon series.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

From Gérard Courant's Cinématon series.

Single sequence shot panning 180° over a landscape of roubines in the region of Digne-les-Bains, in the Southern Alps.

Manipulated MiniDV footage.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

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

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of...

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of...

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of...

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of...

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of...

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.