Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various...
Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy devoted to Christ’s Passion, Lacrima Christi is an exploration of the transfer between desire and myth that takes as its starting point a series of...
Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”
In this new opus of the Carnets filmés we find his pronounced taste for travel (West Berlin, Marseille, the Pyrenees, the Southern Alps) and his life devoted to filming (the feature films Coeur bleu, Vivre est une solution, Spoonful, La Neige tremblait sur les arbres). Also noteworthy in 1980 was...
