Marcel Hanoun

Fin de partie (2012)

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La Femme de Chambre, Un Corps sans Visage (2011)

A short film shot on July 2, 2011 that directly refers to the DSK case. In voice-over, with an echo in English, the inner monologue of a maid who wears makeup, hair, wounds, whose body has disappeared in suffering. A reflection on loneliness and confinemen ...

L’Age de Bronze (2010)

La Cinémathèque offered the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun to make a retrospective of his work, a new film, the one of his choice: a "free" film, which means free to the filmmaker of to see and hear what he wants, who he wants, and, ideally, to make it known an ...

Cello (2010)

A cello player is asked by her daughter why she suddenly interrupted her musical career… The voices and images of the two women intertwined with the author's give way to thought, vision. Confessions of lives dedicated to creating. ...

Déconstruction (2009)

The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of all sort ...

Le Ravissement de Natacha (2007)

The long sequestration of a young girl becoming a woman told by her captor which is replaced by the face and voice of a wife. ...

Insaisissable Image (2007)

Film produced as part of the Festival Pocket Films Forum Images. ...

Y voir, identité (2003)

An interrogation on the real identity of each one. ...

L’Etre à l’Autre (2001)

In his solitude, a man dreams, imagines, fumbles, eructs. In front of his computer, he writing, he sends e-mails, like bottles at the sea. Robinson, he tries to escape, not from a deserted island, but a world of appearances, deserted, empty, inconsistent, ...

Le Cri (2001)

Essay on the attacks of September 11, 2001. ...

Jeanne, aujourd'hui (2000)

An actress rehearses behind closed doors scenes from the trial of Joan of Arc, confronted with the view that spectators have character. ...

Noise of Love and War (1997)

A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away. ...

Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort (1997)

A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio. ...

Chemin d'humanité (1997)

Film in memory of the workers of the Lille company Massey-Ferguson, who manufactured tractors and combines, and closed its doors in 1984. ...

Un arbre fou d'oiseaux (1996)

By reviving memories that remain of her disappeared friend, Sabine tries to resurrect and mourn. ...

La Boulangère et le cosmonaute (1996)

A baker knew the cosmonaut child who now revolves around Earth. ...

I Am Dying to Live (1994)

"I'm dying to live." These words from Saint Teresa of Ávila are said by Mother Aloïse Osée when she is about to separate forever from Don Jerome. ...

Un château en hiver (1994)

Editing excerpts from classical concerts «Winter Keyboards» Shot at the castle of Grand Jardin in Joinville in February 1993. ...

Le Regard blessé (1994)

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A Flor Encarnada (1994)

Portugal, at the beginning of the century. The suffering of a peasant and his daughter. The lack of communication and the emptiness of mechanical lives. A third character, a mysterious woman to whom the peasant pays courteous visits... abyss of bodies. Pet ...

The Lovers of Sarajevo (1993)

Deeply moved by the Bosnian tragedy and, more specifically, by the nightmare that the inhabitants of Sarajevo have been living for two years, the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun, like other great creators (from Susan Sontag to Juan Goytisolo), wanted to give testi ...

Regard/Passion/Mémoire (1992)

The life of the writer, journalist and painter Borvine Frankel, who crisscrossed Europe and the world. ...

Le Cri de l'arbre (1992)

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The City Through Time (1991)

A documentary in which Marcel Hanoun examines, delimits, paces up and down and criss-crosses the town of Langres, offering the houses, walls and everything which makes up the identity of a place, an opportunity to express themselves through the time of sea ...

L'Art silencieux (1991)

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De mémoire d'eau (1990)

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Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989)

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose families are Algerian: they are young, beautiful and they are trying to build a family and a social life in ...

Otage (1989)

Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbable currency for terrorists... ...

Didier Rousseau, sculptor, performance (1988)

A sculptor carves and transforms himself. ...

Boucherie fine (1987)

A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers. ...

Un film (autoportrait) (1984)

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 ...

Le Soleil bas (1984)

This film is believed to be lost. ...

Peu d'hommes, quelques femmes (1982)

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L'arbre qui gémit (1981)

A young man and an older woman are prepared for a funeral ceremony, theirs. ...

Futur antérieur (1979)

Two beings, a man and a woman, coming from elsewhere, find themselves in a church in ruins after all life on Earth has disappeared. ...

Le Temps met fin aux hautes pyramides (1979)

The first verse of an elegy by Louise Labbé, a Lyon poetess, the subject of an unfinished project. ...

The Bright Night (1978)

In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between its tw ...

The Gaze (1977)

A couple in a hotel room in Brussels. A painting by Brueghel. In this painting, a mystery. ...

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes (1976)

The floral park of Moutiers in Varengeville (Normandy). ...

N'Diangane (1975)

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar. ...

Promenades flamandes (1975)

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The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (1974)

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John. ...

Autumn (1972)

Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, "Juliette sacrifiée". Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien is soon falling in love. During the whole of the movie, both are ...

Spring (1971)

One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village approaches t ...

Winter (1969)

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage. ...

Summer (1968)

During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May. ...

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung (1967)

20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung. ...

Tiziana (1967)

October in Madrid (1965)

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. "Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. ...

Sérénade pour Mojacar (1964)

Short film made in Spain. ...

Le Mystère d'Elche (1964)

On the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, a very old sacred liturgical drama is performed by the people of Elche. ...

La Dame d'Elche (1964)

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La Rose et le Barrage (1963)

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church. ...

Operación H (1963)

In 1963, the businessman Juan Huarte Beaumont, art patron, collector and founder of X Films, a film production company based in Madrid, invited the Basque artists Nestor Basterretxea and Jorge Oteiza to make a promotional short about his companies. Certain ...

Le Christ dans la cité (1962)

Processions during a holy week in Valladolid. ...

Ego Sum (1962)

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Féria (1961)

A Sunday fair with hunger in the air, in a lost Galician village under the black umbrellas of a pitiless rain... ...

La Muerte del Toro (1961)

A visual and sound montage about a fighting bull in the arena. ...

The Eighth Day (1960)

Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her. ...

A Simple Story (1959)

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers. ...

Sketch of Iceland (1957)

Discovery of the land of Iceland, an island shaken by the manifestations of its volcanic activity (geysers, storms), characterized by a rich maritime activity and millennial traditions. ...

Men Who Have Lost Their Roots (1956)

Hungarian refugees in Austrian camps after the failed revolution in Budapest. ...

Gérard de la nuit (1955)

Gérard de Nerval, hallucinated poet, framed through period illustrations. ...

My Conversations on Film (2013)

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 ...

Le Chemin de Resson : Joseph Morder rend visite à Marcel Hanoun (2013)

In Memoriam Marcel Hanoun (2012)

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. ...

Fin de partie (2012)

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Montagnes endormies (2011)

Nuits transparentes (2011)

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York). ...

L’Age de Bronze (2010)

La Cinémathèque offered the filmmaker Marcel Hanoun to make a retrospective of his work, a new film, the one of his choice: a "free" film, which means free to the filmmaker of to see and hear what he wants, who he wants, and, ideally, to make it known an ...

Cello (2010)

A cello player is asked by her daughter why she suddenly interrupted her musical career… The voices and images of the two women intertwined with the author's give way to thought, vision. Confessions of lives dedicated to creating. ...

Marcel Hanoun, chemin faisant (2010)

Feature film. ...

Déconstruction (2009)

The short film is like a journal page of film making. On making a film (in 1966) in Barcelona. On assembling together surviving fragments of the film, but not as a vestige of something for ever lost, but rather an occasion for making a new film of all sort ...

2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder (2007)

Insaisissable Image (2007)

Film produced as part of the Festival Pocket Films Forum Images. ...

Cinexpérimentaux #6: Marcel Hanoun, A Lesson in Cinema (2003)

Marcel Hanoun, one of the most innovative of filmmakers, gives us what he names "a lesson in cinema." Frederique Devaux and Michel Amarger filmed this piece at his country house, composing an abundantly rich portrait. Film clips and sparks of theoretic bra ...

Le journal de Joseph M. (2000)

Amours décolorées (1998)

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer. ...

À la rencontre de Marcel Hanoun (1994)

Film about Marcel Hanoun at work while making his film Les amants de Sarajevo in 1993. ...

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas. ...

She's a Very Nice Lady (1982)

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 ...

Cinématon VII (1980)

Reel 7 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon n°60 : Marcel Hanoun (1980)

L'Été madrilène (1979)

Cinématon (1978)

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 ...

Diary of a Suicide (1973)

On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories. ...

Marcel Hanoun wedding (1971)

October in Madrid (1965)

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. "Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. ...