Gérard Courant Movies

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for 15 years.

Promenade through the district of Bercy in the East of the city of Paris.

La Grande Famille by René Magritte in different sizes superimposed, animates the dove and gives an impression of continuous flight.

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)

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)

A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.

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)

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)

Single sequence shot panning 180° over a landscape of roubines in the region of Digne-les-Bains, in the Southern Alps.

Khrónos 1981 is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot entirely in Thessaloniki, Greece, in parallel with the filmmaker's presence at the city's Super 8 film festival, where he presented his Cinematon series and his feature film Coeur bleu. Gérard Courant filmed, day by day, the...

"Pons" is a film made of a single fixed-sequence shot, lasting half an hour, which shows the Ain river and the Priay bridge spanning it.

Reel 36 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

"Le Fantôme des Arcades" is the story of a series of appearances of a ghost, performed by Christian Clément, who haunts the Corcelles-les-Monts plateau in the Dijon region. The ghost appears several times in front of a mushroom picker, played by Daniel Petit, terrified by these multiple...