Gérard Courant Movies

Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 7 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A woman's face under the light of life.

Reel 3 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

"Ave, Patrick Topaloff !" is a film that parodies an advertisement for Bahlsen candy bars sold in theaters during intermission. The protagonist of this advertising parody, which we hear in the soundtrack of the film, is singer and radio man Patrick Topaloff.

Jean Seberg, Philippe Garrel et Les Hautes solitudes is composed of excerpts from four of my films about Philippe Garrel which concern his silent masterpiece Les Hautes solitudes (1974) and its protagonist, the icon of the New Wave, Jean Seberg.

Sha-Dada is an "expanded" film on two screens which presents itself as a confrontation between two imperialisms.

"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that span the Seine in Paris. (Rail bridges and motorway bridges on the ring road are excluded). The bridges are filmed in order, from upstream to downstream. 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)

An ongoing series of static shots of train stations around the world.

Reel 2 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.