Gérard Courant Movies

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

The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of the underworld. He ends up breaking down, caught in...

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...

Les Deux Lucy is a short documentary portrait of the shooting of Raphaël Bassan's film Lucy en miroir. It's the opportunity for us to look at...

Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and...

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

Imagine in oglinda is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, lasting 4 minutes, which shows the reflections of the sun on the branches of...

Les Funérailles d'Yvette Courant is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, filmed on October 25, 2022, on the occasion...

The film runs along the River Ouche upstream from the city via the Coulée verte to Lake Kir located to the west of the city via the Burgundy...

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 series of portraits filmed in one shot between a person and his/her cat(s) person, free to do what they want.

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.

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema...

Printemps Météore continues to travel, meet people and shoot. Berlin again, Burzet (in the Ardèche), the Chartreuse massif and,...

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for15 years.