Gérard Courant Movies

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...

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°2000 portrait by Gérard Courant on January 1, 2000 in Saint-Maurice, France.

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

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...

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

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°1000 portrait by Gérard Courant on December 31, 1987 in Paris, France.

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

There are certain recurring themes: travel, desolate landscapes (especially in the Vivarais region), love of the cinema, the pleasure of wandering...

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...

Gérard Courant’s “Cinématon” n°1001 portrait by Gérard Courant on January 1, 1988 in Saint-Maurice, France.

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from 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...

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

Corps-Selle is a two-part film set in a sunny, peaceful, wintery Burgundian forest.

One of Courant's many "Carnets filmés", filmed on November 7, 2021 in the botanical garden of l'Arquebuse in Dijon. The film is a slow...

BB X 20 is the compression of 20 films starring Brigitte Bardot, released between 1952 and 1970. Every film is reduced to 25 times the original...

"During the invitation to a film festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I presented the Cinématon and my feature film Blue Heart (which won a...

Route d'argent is a journey through three Atlantic Canadian provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The film takes in...