Gérard Courant Movies

Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

Plus mon Loir gaulois que le Tibre latin is a slow exploration of the snowy city, its surroundings, the banks of the Loire and the village of...

Khrónos 1981 is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot entirely in Thessaloniki, Greece, in parallel with the filmmaker's...

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche...

Loosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing atmosphere surrounds Lady Usher's Diary. This slow and...

From and back to the Place d'Arcy in Dijon, we travel through the city of his childhood.

"Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé" shows the ravages of time on the film A Death Without Importance that Yvan Noé shot in 1948. By isolating and...

A fake "Cinematon".

Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker...

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...

Reel 20 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 10 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

"Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl" shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film "Les Chapeaux des belles dames" which Émile Cohl shot in...

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

Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.