Gérard Courant Movies

"Le Fantôme des Arcades" is the story of a series of appearances of a ghost, performed by Christian Clément, who haunts 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 1981, before Dialogues de Rome , her last cinematic work, L'Homme Atlantique is Marguerite Duras's penultimate film (Les Enfants, filmed in...

"Compression de À travers l'univers" is the reduction of my film À travers l'univers from 1 hour to 18 minutes into a 4-minute movie. ...

On 15 December 1980, Joseph Morder, with the joyful complicity of his Morlock compatriots, created the Morlock Academy in the salons of the Club...

Castellum medievalevale is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, about ten minutes long, filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of...

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...

Ombres de silence is a photo-novel (“photorama” according to the credits) in saturated black and white which takes place in the spring of...

Imagine in oglinda is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, lasting 4 minutes, which shows the reflections of the sun on the branches of...

Le Naufragé et le Prisonnier continue's my frenetic quest for travel and filming. This episode of the Filmed Notebooks is the continuation of...

Les Malheurs de Louis Feuillade shows the ravages of time on the film Bout de Zan et le crocodile that Louis Feuillade shot in 1913. By isolating and...

Lyon 1983 is a stroll along the banks of the Saône and through Old Lyon. The film shows the Quai Saint-Vincent (seen from the Quai de Bondy),...

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

Le Passager Solitaire is a new drift through my favourite regions: Bugey, Vivarais, Burgundy but also Moscow, Kiev and... Saint-Maurice, in the Paris...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

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...

On the occasion of the shooting of his film Chambéry-Les Arcs, entirely devoted to his passion for cycling, Gérard Courant met the...