Gérard Courant Movies

Rue de Rennes in Paris, February 11, 1984. A ceaseless ballet of motor vehicles and passersby create a hypnotic choreography.

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

Crépuscules crétois (August 26 and 27, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip in 1983 to Greece on the...

Lyon 1983 is a stroll along the banks of the Saône and through Old Lyon. The film shows the Quai Saint-Vincent (seen from the Quai de Bondy),...

Pluvia is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, half an hour long, which shows a storm and rain in the village of Priay, in the Ain...

Flumen is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, lasting 4 minutes, which shows the Ain River at the height of the Priay bridge.

L’Agonie des arabesques (2014) was created by Gérard Courant inside the Notre-Dame de Fourvière basilica in Lyon (France).

Made in Paris presents the Institute of Tropical Agronomy in the Bois de Vincennes and its Asian and African monuments.

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

Made up of nine long sequence shots, Hinnis is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the Ain River in spring...

"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...

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

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

"(Daniel) Petit Lu" is a film which celebrates Petit Beurre by the Nantes company LU. The title of the film is a pun between the actor - Daniel Petit...

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

In March 1977, I published a poem about Magdalena Montezuma, actress, collaborator, and inspiration of German filmmaker Werner Schroeter, in issue 13...

BB X 20 is the compression of 20 films starring Brigitte Bardot, released between 1952 and 1970. Every film is reduced to 25 times the original...