Movies: Gérard Courant
- 1987
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
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Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters an...
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- 1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
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Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in i...
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- 1978
Cinématon (1978)
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...
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- 2013
Les funérailles de Marcel Hanoun au Père-Lachaise à Paris (2013)
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- 2007
2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder (2007)
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- 1982
Litan (1982)
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Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as sh...
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- 1984
Tu vois, mon fils, l'espace ici naît du temps (1984)
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this relig...
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- 2011
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2011)
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Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity f...
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- 2018
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? (2018)
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Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? is a variation of Alfred Hitchcock's Cinématon hors collection directed by Gérard Courant on 14 May 1972 in Cannes (France), of which he has transformed the image frame....
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- 2011
Jean Douchet analyse "Deux" de Werner Schroeter à la Cinémathèque française (2011)
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- 2012
Joseph Morder filme le défilé du Premier Mai (2012)
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- 1983
Cinématon XXIX (1983)
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Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....
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- 2013
Oh! Jour des grâces sans pareilles (2013)
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this relig...
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- 2012
Joseph Morder à Madrid, la neige à Montreuil (2012)
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Madrid, a stroll in the Spanish capital with Joseph Morder followed by the snowstorm that paralyzed the Paris region on December 8, 2010....
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- 2021
Le Passeur immobile (2021)
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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 (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are...
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- 1984
La Neige tremblait sur les arbres (1984)
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A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s....
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- 1986
Couple (1986)
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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....
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- 2012
Vincent Nordon, Roland Barthes et Ça/Cinéma (2012)
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- 2014
Un cinéaste qui ne tient pas la caméra est comme un peintre qui ne tient pas le pinceau (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez II) (2014)
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- 2014
Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation (2014)
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Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation is the third of the four film encounters I have had with Werner Schroeter. Unlike the first two, this time a personality from outside the German filmmaker's work joined the meeting. But what a persona...
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