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 area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a dizzying pace; in their midst, portraits appear of a very beautiful woman, along with images of the director who turns the camera on himself, showing his face...

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)

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)

Double Jeu is a filmed Notebook which covers the year 1989.

Printemps Météore continues to travel, meet people and shoot. Berlin again, Burzet (in the Ardèche), the Chartreuse massif and, above all, the beginning of a new feature film (The Adventures of Eddie Turley) with Philip Dubuquoy, who was one of my first Cinématons in 1978 (No. 13)

Under the expert eye of Gérard Courant's camera, Janine Anquetil, the widow of cycling champion Jacques Anquetil, five-time winner of the Tour de France (between 1957 and 1964), recounts her husband's career, which was full of exceptional events.

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...

Et si on jouait? is the first episode of my Filmed Notebooks shot on video, whereas all the others were shot on film for nearly fifteen years.

Esquisses Helléniques pour "A propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary which is a summer journey through the Greece of Athens and the islands. This film served as a preparation for the feature film, A propos de la Grèce.

Le Blanc Cassé is a pedestrian drift, camera in hand, which starts on rue Gazan in the 14th arrondissement and ends near the Palais de Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement.

A film poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women submerged in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

Series of areas that are dear to him(Morvan, Bugey, les Aples, Vivarais,…etc.). Shots taken while driving from his car, holding the camera with his right hand without looking through the viewfinder while I driving withf his left hand.

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 length, resulting in approximately 4 minutes. BB X 20 is an absolutely complete compression: this anthology devoted to Brigitte Bardot doesn’t miss a...