Hinnis (2024)
Made up of nine long sequence shots, Hinnis is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the Ain River in spring in Priay. ...
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Gérard Courant is a French filmmaker, writer, actor, poet and independent producer born on December 4, 1951 in Lyon, France. He is the son of the writer and historian René Current. He is one of the most prolific filmmakers of cinema. He created, directed and produced Cinématon, the longest movie in the world (over 200 hours long). In all, he has shot nearly 7,000 filmed portraits and a very large number of other films (more than 1,000) since the mid-1970s. He has also published several books on cinema.
Made up of nine long sequence shots, Hinnis is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the Ain River in spring in Priay. ...
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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 February 2007! Inside the camera was a cassette with 23 minutes of recorded footage from a vacation in Mex ...
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Single sequence shot panning 180° over a landscape of roubines in the region of Digne-les-Bains, in the Southern Alps. ...
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Des eaux, petites et grandes is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the element of water. ...
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"Lyon in 96 minutes" is, with a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot lasting one hour and 36 minutes, a stroll through the city of Lyon which begins on the Fourvière hill and its basilica and ends on the other Lyon hill, that of Croix-Rousse. ...
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"The Misfortunes of Paul Cadéac" shows the ravages of time on a copy of the film "Quai des blondes", the only realization that Paul Cadéac shot in 1954. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged photograms of the French producer's film, I managed to ...
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Études préparatoires pour "À propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary that is a summer journey through the Greek islands. This film served as a preparation for the feature film, À propos de la Grèce. ...
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Esquisses Helléniques pour "A propos de la Grèce" is a filmed diary which is a summer journey through the Greece of Athens and the islands. This film served as a preparation for the feature film, A propos de la Grèce. ...
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"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 slowing down the most damaged parts of the French filmmaker's film, I managed to create a object with abstract shapes ...
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"Les Malheurs de Marc Allégret" shows the ravages of time on the rushes of the unfinished film "Les Corsaires" which Marc Allégret began filming in 1940 and which was interrupted by the Second World War. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged par ...
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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 world that is searching for its bearings and has not found its bearings following the collapse and disappearan ...
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Histoires ordinaires is a filmed diary that covers the year 1990. ...
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Across the city, a Canadian megalopolis, Gérard Courant's images, blurred and faded, write the sound of Kraftwerck. Synthetic, techno... it illustrates movement, speed, rhythm. From the woods on the outskirts to the large, wide avenues, passers-by see the ...
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Le Nouvel Hiver is a slightly disillusioned reflection on the state of the world (the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the USSR, the Gulf War), the events of which are the thread of this year's Notebooks (1 January 1991 to 31 December 1991). Of course, ...
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The Misfortunes of Luis Buñuel shows the ravages of time on the rushes of the film The Golden Age that Luis Buñuel shot in 1930. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the rushes of the Spanish master's film, I managed to to create an ob ...
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The film runs along the River Ouche upstream from the city via the Coulée verte to Lake Kir located to the west of the city via the Burgundy Canal. ...
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Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like ...
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"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 1909. Slowing down the most damaged parts of the film from the father of the animation, Gérard Courant has succeeded i ...
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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 exploration of this space, created in 1833 and rich in around 3,500 species of botanical plants. ...
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I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin. ...
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Les Vivants et les morts begins with a long sequence in both Berlin, mainly West Berlin, where I stay the whole month of January, thanks to a grant from the Goethe Institute. Then, most of this episode is a daily observation of Paris and the Butte Montmart ...
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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 of my new film, The Adventures of Eddie Turley, with Philip Dubuquoy, Françoise Michaud, Joël Barbouth, Jo ...
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Le Naufragé et le Prisonnier continue's my frenetic quest for travel and filming. This episode of the Filmed Notebooks is the continuation of the previous one (Printemps météore) with the filming of the Adventures of Eddie Turley, whose protagonists are ...
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"Villagium" is a film made from a stationary one-and-a-half-hour shot, which shows the storm and the rain in the street, by the church in the village of Priay, Ain. ...
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"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. ...
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Filmed in parallel with the retrospective of Gérard Courant's films at the Studio Molière organised by the French Institute in Vienna. La Valse de Vienne is a cinematic stroll through the city of Vienna and an exploration of its historic centre. The fil ...
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The film shows this place where the author was a resident from January 4, 1966 to July 31, 1967. ...
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During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes. ...
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"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the Universe", presented as part of the "Ethnology and Cinema" in Grenoble, at the Les Méliès cinema in Saint-Mar ...
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"Rêveries d'un escaladeur solitaire" is a tribute to "Goupi Mains Rouges", the film Jacques Becker shot in 1943 during the Occupation. The main character of "Rêveries d'un escaladeur solitaire" which takes over the role of Tonkin from Becker's film, play ...
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"(Daniel) Petit Lu" is a film which celebrates Petit Beurre by the Nantes company LU. The title of the film is a pun between the actor - Daniel Petit - and the famous Petits Beurre. In "(Daniel) Petit Lu", Daniel Petit devours small butter in a biscuit cho ...
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"Ave, Patrick Topaloff !" is a film that parodies an advertisement for Bahlsen candy bars sold in theaters during intermission. The protagonist of this advertising parody, which we hear in the soundtrack of the film, is singer and radio man Patrick Topalof ...
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"Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film that Gérard Courant shot on November 12, 1970 at the Porte du Diable in the Pasques forest in Plombières-lès-Dijon. ...
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Aurore collective is composed of 50 sequences filmed in Dijon and Paris (successive places of residence of the filmmaker), Chalon-sur-Saône, Valence, Cannes, Greece, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. ...
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Film-poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women plunged into the consuming flames of time. ...
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Khrónos 1981 is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot entirely in Thessaloniki, Greece, in parallel with the filmmaker's presence at the city's Super 8 film festival, where he presented his Cinematon series and his feature film Coeur bleu. ...
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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 Chambilly. ...
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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 Chaillot in the 16th arrondissement. ...
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A film poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women submerged in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. ...
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Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. ...
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Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. ...
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Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, repeat the Way of the Cross of the Passion of Christ. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters in this seven-century-old Way of the Cross. ...
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The action of "Le Jour où la Terre s'éveilla" begins 4 billion 540 million years ago ... at the time of the formation of planet Earth. This formation lasted 20 million years. The film lasts 12 hours and is composed of 1,080,000 images. Each image of t ...
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Placed under the auspices of the philosopher Gaston Bachelard whose maxim "The human being has the fate of flowing water", is quoted in the epistle of the film, La Femme qui pleure dans les nuages is a film-poem by Gerard Courant to the glory of nine women ...
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This film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, by Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. This interview, later put into images by Gérard Courant, is centred around the feature film Eugénie de Franval ...
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This is the sound recording of the interview that Michael Snow, filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and visual artist, gave to Gérard Courant for the magazine Art press, published in February 1979, in its number 25. A great connoisseur of the Canadian arti ...
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Iliana Lolic fait l'éloge de Luc Moullet is part of the Carnets filmés that Gérard Courant has been making since the 1970s. The film is a meeting, filmed on 20 August 2000 in Paris, with the actress Iliana Lolic. In this film by Gérard Courant, Iliana ...
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"Ponts routiers de la Seine à Paris" is a film series that shows, in a single fixed, wide and silent plan all the bridges (and bridges) that span the Seine in Paris. (Rail bridges and motorway bridges on the ring road are excluded). The bridges are filmed ...
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Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? is a variation of Alfred Hitchcock's Cinématon hors collection directed by Gérard Courant on 14 May 1972 in Cannes (France), of which he has transformed the image frame. ...
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Hitch x 4 is a filmed portrait of Alfred Hitchcock which, in a screen divided into four equal parts, brings together Gérard Courant's special Cinematon of the master of suspense made on 14 May 1972 with three variations of the same Cinematon. ...
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"Le Départ de la 2ème étape Ambérieu-en-Bugey-Saint-Vulbas du Tour de l'Ain 2017" is an episode of "Carnets filmés" by Gérard Courant that the filmmaker shot in Ambérieu-en-Bugey in the departure village of the Tour de l'Ain cyclist where around a h ...
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À travers l'univers à la Cinemateca Portuguesa de Lisbonne (June 22, 2017) is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot during the retrospective of his films at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. In this episode of the Filmed Notebooks, An ...
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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 2-hour film to a 5-minute film. The film is "compressed" in the manner of a work by Arman or César. But u ...
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Portrait of filmmaker and screenwriter Caroline Deruas, shot in Seoul (South Korea) on December 23, 2015 at 1:45 PM. ...
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"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: "Jean-Marie Straub, Cinématon number 342" and "Danièle Huillet, Cinematon number 343," filmed on May 27, 1984. ...
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Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not part of the anthology and is therefore out of collection. However, he has all the characteristics of an official Cinématon but the f ...
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"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d'universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues, boulevards, courtyards, dead ends, and passages) and the 14 squares (as well as the squares...) of Lyon that have univers ...
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Quand reverrai-je mon petit village is an episode of the Carnets filmés, which was filmed entirely in France and follows Route d'argent, which was filmed entirely in Ca ...
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Route d'argent is a journey through three Atlantic Canadian provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The film takes in Moncton, New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Victoria, Prince Edward Island; Bouctouche, New Brunswick; and, at l ...
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Almost all of this episode of the Carnets filmés, with the evocative title, Tout est Brisé is devoted to the misdeeds of the storm of 26 December 1999 on the Bois de Vincennes, whose forest extends at the foot of my building. For several months, I was th ...
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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 sidelines of Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville. These Notebooks are essentially composed of unpreserved shots ...
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Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the sidelines of Lyon, autopsie d'une grande ville. These Notebooks are essentially composed of unpreserved shots a ...
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Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon is the recording of this radio programme - a first for Gérard Courant - which allows him to talk about some of the films that are close to his heart: The Death of Maria Malibran by Werner Schroeter, La Cicatrice intér ...
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Jean Seberg, Philippe Garrel et Les Hautes solitudes is composed of excerpts from four of my films about Philippe Garrel which concern his silent masterpiece Les Hautes solitudes (1974) and its protagonist, the icon of the New Wave, Jean Seberg. ...
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Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet is an audio interview with Luc Moullet recorded on 29 January 1979 by Gérard Courant for the magazine Cinéma 79. ...
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Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation is the third of the four film encounters I have had with Werner Schroeter. Unlike the first two, this time a personality from outside the German filmmaker's work joined the meeting. But what a personality! ...
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Joseph Morder sur Radio Ark en Ciel is the sound recording of this meeting in which the filmmaker talks about his films and his famous Film Diary and about the Morlock Academy which he founded in 1980. ...
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On 15 December 1980, Joseph Morder, with the joyful complicity of his Morlock compatriots, created the Morlock Academy in the salons of the Club Pernod on the Champs Élysées in Paris. Three weeks later, Gérard Courant brought together Joseph Morder, Guy ...
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On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafo ...
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In this new opus of the Carnets filmés we find his pronounced taste for travel (West Berlin, Marseille, the Pyrenees, the Southern Alps) and his life devoted to filming (the feature films Coeur bleu, Vivre est une solution, Spoonful, La Neige tremblait su ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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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 1976, during a screening of the Collectif Jeune Cinéma that took place on the top floor of the MJC Saint-Michel. ...
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On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré. ...
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La Terre des Vivants, is serenity in the midst of an increasingly fast-moving world. This new part of the Filmed Diaries is spread over only six months (from 1 January 1992 to 30 June 1992). In response to this agitation, The Land of the Living is nothing ...
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Le Passager Solitaire is a new drift through my favourite regions: Bugey, Vivarais, Burgundy but also Moscow, Kiev and... Saint-Maurice, in the Paris suburbs where I live. ...
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Le Voyageur sans Ombre is a sort of antechamber to Aventures d'Eddie Turley. We can follow step by step the progress of the filming with Philip Dubuquoy, Françoise Michaud and Joseph Morder during their travels in the South of France (Marseille, Aix-en-Pr ...
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Lucia Sanchez, "Cinématon" n° 2014 shows the behind-the-scenes and filming of actress Lucia Sanchez's Cinematon. ...
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Florence Loiret-Caille, Cinématon n°2013 shows the aftermath and the filming of actress Florence Loiret-Caille's Cinématon on the site of her birth (where she had never returned!). ...
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A New World is an inventory of 112 streets, roads and alleys (first part) and 14 squares and squares (second part) of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. ...
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1300 meters from the arrival of the 13th stage Carpentras-Orcières Merlette (192 kms), then, in the Col de Sauze, the 14th stage Orcières-Merlette-Briançon (201 kms) of the Tour de France 1972. Filmmaker Gérard Courant photographed Eddy Merckx (yellow ...
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"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks. ...
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A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers) which has just been won by the Belgian Daniel Van Rijckeghem ahead of the Dutch Jan Janssen (2nd) and Marinus Wagtmans (3rd). ...
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Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along with Jean Eustache, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Philippe Garrel were the most innovative filmmakers of the po ...
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Filmed on the Longchamp cycling circuit in Paris, the writer Olivier Dazat, author of the books Seigneurs et forçats du vélo (published by Calmann-Lévy) and Panache (published by Le Dilettante), shares his thoughts on the champions Fausto Coppi, Hugo Ko ...
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Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for h ...
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Madrid, a stroll in the Spanish capital with Joseph Morder followed by the snowstorm that paralyzed the Paris region on December 8, 2010. ...
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Made in 1981, before Dialogues de Rome , her last cinematic work, L'Homme Atlantique is Marguerite Duras's penultimate film (Les Enfants, filmed in 1983 and often wrongly attributed to her, is a film she merely supervised and which is credited to her son J ...
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A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavattini's ...
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Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York). ...
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A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily. ...
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A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily. ...
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A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily. ...
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"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his work in general. Our meeting took place on the terrace of the Hotel Majestic, in the midst of excitement of ...
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Vivre à Naples et Mourir (Entretien avec Werner Schroeter) is the sound recording of this informal meeting, which took place on 20 May 1978 and which, as the filmmaker wished, is closer to a casual conversation than to an interview in the strict sense of ...
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Travelling through kms of concrete and urbanisation before reaching the ocean. ...
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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 length, resulting in approximately 4 minutes. BB X 20 is an absolutely complete compression: this anthology devo ...
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A wandering in the various districts of Dresden a martyrdom city of the Second World War. ...
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In March 1977, I published a poem about Magdalena Montezuma, actress, collaborator, and inspiration of German filmmaker Werner Schroeter, in issue 13 of the magazine Les Soleils d'Infernalia . This poem was included in my book Werner Schroeter, published b ...
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On the occasion of the 7th meetings of Digne, Pour un autre cinéma, organized by Pierre Queyrel and which presented a retrospective of Philippe Garrel's cinematographic work, this film is the sound recording of the discussion that the filmmaker made with ...
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Promenade through the district of Bercy in the East of the city of Paris. ...
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30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera. ...
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Through the Universe is the third section of my cinematic series Mes Villes d'Habitation (My Dwelling Towns). The film represents the autopsy of Saint-Marcellin, a small village in the Isère Region where I spent my childhood during the 50s. Through the ...
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On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003, Courant filmed this community's annual reenactment of the Via Crucis 24 times. ...
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The 195 streets in alphabetical order of La Croix-Rousse a famous district in Lyon. ...
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15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions. ...
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A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of th ...
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A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films. ...
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Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer. ...
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Voyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the government of the Republika Serbska, the film brought back by Gérard Courant from his trip with a group of writers in Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...
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An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened. ...
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Series of areas that are dear to him(Morvan, Bugey, les Aples, Vivarais,…etc.). Shots taken while driving from his car, holding the camera with his right hand without looking through the viewfinder while I driving withf his left hand. ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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A series of portraits filmed in one shot between a person and his/her cat(s) person, free to do what they want. ...
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Cinécabot is a series of one shot portraits between a person and his/her dog(s) interacting together as they please. ...
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Et si on jouait? is the first episode of my Filmed Notebooks shot on video, whereas all the others were shot on film for nearly fifteen years. ...
Watch NowPoetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. ...
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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 do what they want. ...
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Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book. ...
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Terry Gilliam's "Cinématon" n°601 portrait by Gérard Courant on September 8, 1985 in Deauville, France. ...
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Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. ...
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Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes. ...
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Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a dizzying pace; in their midst, portraits appear of a very beautiful woman, along with images of the director who turns t ...
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A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80's. ...
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"During the invitation to a film festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I presented the Cinématon and my feature film Blue Heart (which won a prize), I filmed the daily life of the city. The seafront, the university and the city where I was staying. ...
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A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills which offer an amazing view over the old town crossed by a highway and port. ...
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An auspicious day to fill as Paris wakes up under a thick layer of snow; Dévotion is wandering to the Palais de Chaillot through a paralyzed Paris. ...
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Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series. ...
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Two New York women, Kristin and Doreen, live a black and white life, but in color of Gene Tierney, a star of 40' Hollywood melodrama, while listening to the old songs of Marilyn Monroe. They go from one extreme to the other (from dream to reality, from day ...
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Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin's in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin. ...
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"In this journey, Courant's heroine wanders through the clouds and Pyrenees mountains way after the world's destruction [... ...
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Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious ...
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Dominique Paini's portrait by Gérard Courant (1980 - silent). ...
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Un sanglant symbole is two films: the film of the image and the film of the voice. The film of the image was shot before the film of the voice. The film of the image is the reproduction of 160 photographs (of films, advertisements, news ...) filmed in vari ...
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"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of representation, meets four characters who, each in their own way, give her a key to cross the five sequences/ini ...
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Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall. ...
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Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte). ...
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...
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Sha-Dada is an "expanded" film on two screens which presents itself as a confrontation between two imperialisms. ...
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Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impos ...
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One year before starting his famous series "Cinematons", Gerard Courant had made an ancestor to this series: the portrait of Martine Rousset, filmed with a Bolex 16 mm mechanical. ...
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Loosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing atmosphere surrounds Lady Usher's Diary. This slow and feverish melodrama... ...
Watch NowLe Nouvel Hiver is a slightly disillusioned reflection on the state of the world (the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the USSR, the Gulf War), the events of which are the thread of this year's Notebooks (1 January 1991 to 31 December 1991). Of course, ...
Watch NowLe Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like ...
Watch NowI give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin. ...
Watch Now"A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the Universe", presented as part of the "Ethnology and Cinema" in Grenoble, at the Les Méliès cinema in Saint-Mar ...
Watch Now"Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film that Gérard Courant shot on November 12, 1970 at the Porte du Diable in the Pasques forest in Plombières-lès-Dijon. ...
Watch NowThis film is an audio interview of Louis Skorecki, filmmaker and film critic for Cahiers du cinéma, by Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. This interview, later put into images by Gérard Courant, is centred around the feature film Eugénie de Franval ...
Watch NowEncore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not part of the anthology and is therefore out of collection. However, he has all the characteristics of an official Cinématon but the f ...
Watch NowLe Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon is the recording of this radio programme - a first for Gérard Courant - which allows him to talk about some of the films that are close to his heart: The Death of Maria Malibran by Werner Schroeter, La Cicatrice intér ...
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This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and ...
Watch NowOn the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré. ...
Watch Now"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks. ...
Watch NowStrolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York). ...
Watch NowA cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily. ...
Watch Now"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his work in general. Our meeting took place on the terrace of the Hotel Majestic, in the midst of excitement of ...
Watch Now30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera. ...
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Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journe ...
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The fortuitous meeting of two women to the identical first name, Lucy, who formerly loved the same man, Jonathan, induced, in this film, of the polysemous variations on the memory, art, and the difficult relationship between creation and emotional life. De ...
Watch NowLes Deux Lucy is a short documentary portrait of the shooting of Raphaël Bassan's film Lucy en miroir. It's the opportunity for us to look at one of our contemporary filmmakers and important film critics of what we call in French cinémas differents, mean ...
Watch Now15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions. ...
Watch NowA film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of th ...
Watch NowAmours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer. ...
Watch NowVoyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the government of the Republika Serbska, the film brought back by Gérard Courant from his trip with a group of writers in Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...
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A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He films his parents and those close to him and determines to tell the about his homosexuality. ...
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A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows hi ...
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Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbable currency for terrorists... ...
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Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and rela ...
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A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wif ...
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The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of the underworld. He ends up breaking down, caught in a role he can no longer fulfill. His last betrayal is to spill the beans to the press. ...
Watch NowGérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a dizzying pace; in their midst, portraits appear of a very beautiful woman, along with images of the director who turns t ...
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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, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of the film itself, tormented filmmaker Marcel Hanoun has ma ...
Watch NowA Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80's. ...
Watch NowA song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills which offer an amazing view over the old town crossed by a highway and port. ...
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A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, S ...
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Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does ...
Watch NowUlrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte). ...
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