Gérard Courant Movies

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

Les Malheurs de Robert Dhéry shows the ravages of time on part of the copy of Branquignol, the film that Robert Dhéry made in 1949. By...

Esquisses Helléniques pour "A propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary which is a summer journey through the Greece of Athens and the...

In the fall of 2023, I bought a used Sony video camera from the United States with the MiniDV cassette system online. It was an old model released in...

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

Even if trips (Burzet, the Lac du Bourget, Geneva, Dijon, Normandy) punctuate La Marche du temps (1 April 1984 to 31 December 1984), this episode...

Courant registered Garrel’s dialogues in order to produce his first urgent film, the first of his essays inquiring the state of current cinema....

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to...

9th part of the Decalog Night : a ghost wandering in various districts of Paris filmed with a cell phone and transformed into mirror images - 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...

L'Arbre de la Vie is, first of all, a summer trip to the island of Sifnos, Greece, then, in Paris, the film shows the preparations for the shooting...

Le Monde Impatient is an episode of the Filmed Diaries that takes place in New York on the occasion of my second visit to the city. It's a long...

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

This new episode of the Notebooks is entitled The New Desert (4 March 1998 to 26 November 1998). These are years of cinematographic maturity in a...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Le Pharaon à Lyon is an episode of the Carnets filmés which takes place in France: in the Champ du Feu in the Vosges mountains, in...

Boulevard Saint-Germain shows the clash between Paris high school students and the police on the legendary Latin Quarter thoroughfare on the day of...