Gérard Courant Movies

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend...

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema...

Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from...

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to...

Early portrait of Ossang in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes.

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake...

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 30 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 28 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Madrid, a stroll in the Spanish capital with Joseph Morder followed by the snowstorm that paralyzed the Paris region on December 8, 2010.

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...