Gérard Courant Movies

Ventus is a film made up of a single, half-hour-long, fixed sequence shot that shows the effects of wind on trees in the village of Priay, in the Ain...

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

Artemis is not a Cinématon in the strict sense of the term since the person being filmed - Artemis - is not an individual but a statue! This...

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

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

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

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

Reel 9 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...

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

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

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

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

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...