Gérard Courant
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.
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as L'inspecteurTwo young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take...
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Cinématon
as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...
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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)
as Himself (voice)
Litan
as Extra (uncredited)Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its...
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
as Self (archive footage)
The Case of the Morituri Divisions
as InspecteurThe story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star...
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Le Passeur immobile
as SelfLe Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and...
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Les Jours et les Nuits
as SelfI give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec...
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La Neige tremblait sur les arbres
as uncreditedA Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.
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Un film (autoportrait)
as SelfThe shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and...
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L'Artifice et le factice
as Self"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to...
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2000 Cinématons
as SelfA film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality...
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Paradise Hotel
as uncreditedA diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their...
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Omelette
as uncreditedA young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary....
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Up and Down
as Le masoA bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a...
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My Conversations on Film
as HimselfThis distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to...
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About Greece
as uncreditedGérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections,...
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Lucy en Miroir
as Jonathan (voice)The fortuitous meeting of two women to the identical first name, Lucy, who formerly loved the...
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Le Chemin de Resson : Joseph Morder rend visite à Marcel Hanoun
as uncredited
Périssable Paradis
as uncredited15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.
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Amours décolorées
as uncreditedAmours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist,...
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Alicudi 1 Bella
as uncreditedA cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.
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L’Art, c’est se perdre dans les châteaux du rêve (entretien avec Philippe Garrel III)
as Himself (voice)
Le Cinéma Le Trianon de Verneuil-sur-Avre célèbre Juliet Berto
as Self
Trying to Describe Oneself
as HimselfTrying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to...
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Autour de Vent-Pire
as uncredited"Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film...
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Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
as Self30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in...
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Un débat À travers l'univers
as Himself"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the...
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Coude à coude
as HimselfCoude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to...
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Genova Genova
as uncreditedA song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore...
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Nuits transparentes
as uncreditedStrolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich,...
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Otage
as uncreditedInspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and...
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Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
as Self
L’oeuvre d’art est utile car elle consolide notre liberté (entretien avec Philippe Garrel IV)
as Himself (voice)
Vivre à Naples Et Mourir
as Himself"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave...
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Mes films commencent au moment où les autres se terminent (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez I)
as Himself (voice)
Journey to the Center of the World
as uncreditedVoyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the...
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Lady Usher's Diary
as L'homme qui parle de Louis Le PrinceLoosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing...
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Attention poésie (entretien avec Philippe Garrel II)
as Himself (voice)
We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)
as Himself (voice)
Portraits / Mirrors
as uncreditedA single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of:...
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Encore Cinématé !
as HimselfEncore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous...
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Hérésie pour Magritte IV
as uncreditedUlrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's...
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