Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. Gérard Courant collected and edited the...
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 sidelines of Lyon, autopsie d’une grande ville. These Notebooks are essentially composed of unpreserved shots and notes filmed according to the...
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 religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
Courant registered Garrel’s dialogues in order to produce his first urgent film, the first of his essays inquiring the state of current cinema. As a synthesis for the 20th century, Garrel invoked his relationship with Freud, Henri Langlois, Orson Welles, Marx, The Rolling Stones, Godard, Warhol,...
"Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl" shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film "Les Chapeaux des belles dames" which Émile Cohl shot in 1909. Slowing down the most damaged parts of the film from the father of the animation, Gérard Courant has succeeded in creating an object with abstract shapes...
Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. Gérard Courant collected and edited the...
"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 of Priay, Ain.
This is the sound recording of the interview that Michael Snow, filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and visual artist, gave to Gérard Courant for the magazine Art press, published in February 1979, in its number 25. A great connoisseur of the Canadian artist's work and one of the first to pay...
Through the Universe is the third section of my cinematic series Mes Villes d’Habitation (My Dwelling Towns). The film represents the autopsy of Saint-Marcellin, a small village in the Isère Region where I spent my childhood during the 50s. Through the Universe displays, in alphabetical order,...
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 religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
