Gérard Courant Movies

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

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

Khrónos 1981 is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot entirely in Thessaloniki, Greece, in parallel with the filmmaker's...

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

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...

"Villagium" is a film made from a stationary one-and-a-half-hour shot, which shows the storm and the rain in the street, by the church in the village...

"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...

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...

Esquisses Helléniques pour "A propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary which is a summer journey through the Greece of Athens and the...

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

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

In 2004 and 2005, I made a filmed inventory of the streets and squares of Saint-Marcellin, in the Dauphiné. This movie is called: Across the...

Route d'argent is a journey through three Atlantic Canadian provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The film takes in...

BB X 20 is the compression of 20 films starring Brigitte Bardot, released between 1952 and 1970. Every film is reduced to 25 times the original...

Le Pharaon à Lyon is an episode of the Carnets filmés which takes place in France: in the Champ du Feu in the Vosges mountains, in...

Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.