Gérard Courant Movies

Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°1463 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 14, 1990 in Saint-Maurice, France.

Castellum medievalevale is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, about ten minutes long, filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of...

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

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

Inventaire filmé des rues de Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne, France) is a cinematographic series presenting in a single wide, fixed, silent shot,...

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°1000 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 31, 1987 in Paris, France.

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

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.

This unofficial Cinématon is one of two that Gérard Courant filmed on January 25, 2001. The second Cinématon, filmed in a...

Part of the Gérard Courant series, filmed on the summer of 1985, in Paris.

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...

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

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

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...

Self-portrait of the author of Cinématon, French filmmaker Gérard Courant, shot in Paris (France) on October 18, 1977 at 3:00 PM.

Le Blanc Cassé is a pedestrian drift, camera in hand, which starts on rue Gazan in the 14th arrondissement and ends near the Palais de...

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

Portrait of French filmmaker Stéphane Marti shot in Lyon (France) on September 10, 1978 at 4:00 PM.

An auspicious day to fill as Paris wakes up under a thick layer of snow; Dévotion is wandering to the Palais de Chaillot through a paralyzed...