Gérard Courant Movies

Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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...

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

"Ave, Patrick Topaloff !" is a film that parodies an advertisement for Bahlsen candy bars sold in theaters during intermission. The protagonist of...

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

"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...

French sculptor César Baldaccini, commonly known as just César (1921-1998), began creating his “directed compressions” of...

Sifnos (September 1-4, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip to Greece in 1983, to the island of Sifnos, Vathy,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"(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...

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

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