Movies: Gérard Courant
- 1993
Up and Down (1993)
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A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allo...
- 1987
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
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Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters an...
- 1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
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Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in i...
- 2011
Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I (2011)
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- 1982
Litan (1982)
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Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead....
- 2012
Tour de France 1972 (2012)
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1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage Orcières-Merlette-Briançon (201 kms) of the Tour de France 1972. Filmmaker Gérard Courant photographed Eddy Merckx (yell...
- 1994
Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris (1994)
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"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that span the Seine in Paris. (Rail bridges and motorway bridges on the ring road are excluded). The bridges are f...
- 1978
Cinématon (1978)
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...
- 2014
Un cinéaste qui ne tient pas la caméra est comme un peintre qui ne tient pas le pinceau (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez II) (2014)
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- 2012
Abel Ferrara in Lucca (2012)
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A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavat...
- 1982
Cinématon XVIII (1982)
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Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....
- 2014
Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation (2014)
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Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation is the third of the four film encounters I have had with Werner Schroeter. Unlike the first two, this time a personality from outside the German filmmaker's work joined the meeting. But what a persona...
- 1979
La Seule Façon de rendre la Vie excitante est de regarder la Mort en Face (1979)
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- 1984
Cinématon XL (1984)
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Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....
- 1982
Cinématon XXVII (1982)
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Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....
- 1984
Tu vois, mon fils, l'espace ici naît du temps (1984)
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this relig...
- 1981
Cinématon XIV (1981)
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Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....
- 2021
Le Passeur immobile (2021)
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Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are...
- 2013
My Conversations on Film (2013)
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This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic...
- 2012
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter (2012)
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