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Lyon en 96 minutes 2023
"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. Between these two summits, the film plunges into Old Lyon by taking the Chemin des Rosaires, the climb (in the direction of descent) of Chazeaux, crosses the Place Saint-Jean bordered by the cathedral of the same name which it visit, then runs along the Palais de Justice, the banks of the Saône which it crosses at the Feuillée bridge. The journey continues via rue d'Algérie, the famous Place des Terreaux with its town hall and the Palais Saint-Pierre, rue Puits Gaillot, the slopes of Croix-Rousse with its multitude of steps and staircases which lead us on the tray. The film ends on the esplanade of Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse and the Gros Caillou of ice house origin. - Gérard Courant

Les Malheurs de Paul Cadéac 2023
"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 create an object with abstract shapes and, insidiously, to give another life to a leading artistic work. Gérard Courant

Dis-nous ce que tu sais 2023
Every Good Friday, since 1980, I have filmed the reconstruction of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in Ardèche, where the inhabitants, for seven centuries, have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. . “Dis-nous ce que tu sais” is the report of the Good Friday ceremonial of the year 2023 in Burzet.

Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé 2023
"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 and, insidiously, to give another life to an artistic work. - Gérard Courant

Les Malheurs de Marc Allégret 2023
“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 parts of the French filmmaker's film rushes, I managed to create an object with abstract shapes and, insidiously, give another life to a major artistic work. - Gérard Courant

Le Passeur immobile 2021
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 a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.

Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl 2021
"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 in creating an object with abstract shapes and, paradoxically, in giving another life to Cohl's work." --Courant

Solitudes en ruine 2021
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.

Les Jours et les Nuits 2021
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.

Villagium 2021 star_border 10
"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.

Pons 2021
"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.

Ergasterium Atomicum 2021
Filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of the village of Priay, the four pressurized water reactors at the Bugey nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas. The village and its bell tower in the foreground was where, as a child, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spent his holidays.

Nuit sans réveil 2021
"Every Good Friday, since 1980, I film the ceremonial of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in the Ardèche, where the inhabitants, for seven centuries, dress up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Burzet's 2021 Passion of Christ Ceremonial has been canceled. To compensate for this cancellation, I tried an experiment..." Says Alain Paucard of the film: "Courant reworks the images, passing from realism to a sort of expressionism which, enlarging the line, warms it."

Dérapages 2020
During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes.

Boris Lehman à Toulouse 2020

Ignis 2020
Film-poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women plunged into the consuming flames of time.

Les ombres mystérieuses des fantômes disparus 2020
A film poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women submerged in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

Le Jour où la Terre s'éveilla 2019
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 the film corresponds to 20 years of the life of the Earth. Every second of the film corresponds to 500 years of the life of the Earth.

La Femme qui pleure dans les nuages 2019
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 engulfed in Alpine and Pyrenean torrents.

L’Homme Atlantique de Marguerite Duras par Gérard Courant 2016

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