Gérard Courant Movies

"Pons" is a film made of a single fixed-sequence shot, lasting half an hour, which shows the Ain river and the Priay bridge spanning it.

Arcipelago (August 31, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip to Greece in 1983 to Piraeus and the Aegean Sea.

A series of portraits filmed in one shot between a person and his/her cat(s) person, free to do what they want.

Les Malheurs d'Alice Guy shows the ravages of time on the copy of Une héroïne de quatre ans that Alice Guy made in 1907. By isolating and...

Portrait of French artist Serge Bard (Abdullah Siradj), shot in Paris (France) on January 8, 2002 at 5:50 PM.

Niagara's compression was designed along the same lines as the compressions of Alphaville and Breathless previous. In the 3600 frames of Niagara...

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

In the first part, I discuss with the author of the famous Diary filmed in a café in Place Saint-Michel to commemorate our first meeting, in...

L’Agonie des arabesques (2014) was created by Gérard Courant inside the Notre-Dame de Fourvière basilica in Lyon (France).

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 29 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...

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

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

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....

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

Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not...

Compression The Birds de Alfred Hitchcock is the reduction of The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 masterpiece with Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, from a...