Videoteca

About Greece 1985
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 the camera on himself, showing his face reddened by the sun.

La Neige tremblait sur les arbres 1984
A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.

Dévotion 1984
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.

Genova Genova 1984
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.

C'est Salonique 1984
"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."

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 to night, from black and white to color), and so travel symbolically through this timelessness. Kristin disappears and Doreen is lost is the big city. Her meetings with Marcel, a filmmaker, then David, a sculptor, accomplish nothing, and she is destroyed by daylight. But her Memory of Gene Tierney triumphs over night and death, and Cinema can continue.

Cinématon XIII 1981
Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Cocktail Morlock 1981

Vivre est une solution 1980 star_border 7
Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.

Coeur bleu 1980 star_border 6
"In this journey, Courant's heroine wanders through the clouds and Pyrenees mountains way after the world's destruction [...] Songs by Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe and Leonard Cohen, scores by Vivaldi, Kraftwerk and Johan Strauss, they all form this eclectic and defying musical atmosphere from which Courant dreams about a point of view that would allow him to find a rhythm in a constantly changing abysmal paradise" -Diego Trerotola

Cinématon VIII 1980
Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Aditya 1980
A woman's face under the light of life.

Cinématon VI 1979
Reel 6 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Hérésie pour Magritte VIII 1979

Hérésie pour Magritte VI 1979

Hérésie pour Magritte VII 1979

Hérésie pour Magritte V 1979

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