Gérard Courant Movies

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003,...

Lisa Courant’s “Cinématon” n°3128 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 26, 2020 in Jarnioux, France.

Les Malheurs d'Alice Guy shows the ravages of time on the copy of Une héroïne de quatre ans that Alice Guy made in 1907. By isolating and...

Portrait of Nicole-Lise Bernheim

"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...

Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He films his parents and those close to him and...

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

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

Les Malheurs d'Alexandre Sanine shows the ravages of time on the copy of Polikushka that Alexander Sanin made in 1919. By isolating and slowing down...

To mark the 30th anniversary of Kodak's invention of the Super 8 format, the Close Encounters of the 8th Type in Tours, France, asked filmmakers to...

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

Portrait of filmmaker, critic, actor, writer, and historian Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, shot in Paris (France) on May 25, 1983 at 2:30 PM.

Courant registered Garrel’s dialogues in order to produce his first urgent film, the first of his essays inquiring the state of current cinema....

Des eaux, petites et grandes is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the element of water.

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to...

Reel 39 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.