Gérard Courant Movies

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,...

Les Malheurs de Germaine Dulac shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film La Cigarette , the film that Germaine Dulac shot in 1919. By...

Les Malheurs de Mário Peixoto shows the ravages of time on a part of the copy of Limite , the only film made by Mário Peixoto in 1931....

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

"After 28 years of filming in Super 8 format, Lisa Rovner's Cinématon No. 2116, shot on May 23, 2006, is, following the cessation of...

To mark the 30th anniversary of Kodak's invention of the Super 8 format, the Close Encounters of the 8th Type in Tours, France, asked filmmakers to...

"Ave, Patrick Topaloff !" is a film that parodies an advertisement for Bahlsen candy bars sold in theaters during intermission. The protagonist of...

"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...

Direction Sud-Est follows L'Anniversaire de Bambou, the previous installment in Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés. It revisits some of...

Les Malheurs de Raoul Walsh shows the ravages of time on the print of the film Regeneration that Raoul Walsh shot in 1915. By selecting and slowing...

Ombres de silence is a photo-novel (“photorama” according to the credits) in saturated black and white which takes place in the spring of...

Marie-Christine Questerbert narrates Luc Moullet is part of the Carnets filmés that Gérard Courant has been making since the 1970s. The...

Portrait of actress Françoise Michaud, shot in Paris (France) on April 20, 1982 at 7:10 PM.

Made in Paris presents the Institute of Tropical Agronomy in the Bois de Vincennes and its Asian and African monuments.

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