Gérard Courant Movies

Ombres de silence is a photo-novel (“photorama” according to the credits) in saturated black and white which takes place in the spring of...

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Portrait of actress Françoise Michaud, shot in Paris (France) on April 20, 1982 at 7:10 PM.

The film is a cinematic stroll through the city of Genoa and an exploration of the alleys in the city centre. It also shows the palaces, churches and...

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

Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Le Monde Impatient is an episode of the Filmed Diaries that takes place in New York on the occasion of my second visit to the city. It's a long...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...

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 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Boulevard Saint-Germain shows the clash between Paris high school students and the police on the legendary Latin Quarter thoroughfare on the day of...

Corps-Selle is a two-part film set in a sunny, peaceful, wintery Burgundian forest.

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

A fusion of two Cinématons to celebrate the day of experimental cinema in Samawah, Iraq.

One of Courant's many "Carnets filmés", filmed on November 7, 2021 in the botanical garden of l'Arquebuse in Dijon. The film is a slow...