Cinématon
Cinématon is a 207-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.
Cast
- Alain Chabat
- Alain Riou
- Alain Tanner
- André Téchiné
- Barbet Schroeder
- Béatrice Romand
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
- Bernard Queysanne
- Bertrand Van Effenterre
- Blanca Li
- Carlos Diegues
- Catherine Frot
- Chantal Lauby
- Christian Aaron Boulogne
- Claude Jutra
- Daniel Pommereulle
- Danièle Dubroux
- Danièle Huillet
- Derek Jarman
- Évelyne Bouix
- Fernando Arrabal
- Françoise Michaud
- Frédéric Mitterrand
- Gaspar Noé
- Gérard Jugnot
- Hélène Lapiower
- Henri Alekan
- Henry Chapier
- Hervé-Pierre Gustave
- Horst Tappert
- Hugues Quester
- Imanol Arias
- Inna Churikova
- Isabel Otero
- Isabelle Collin Dufresne
- Isild Le Besco
- Jackie Berroyer
- Jacques Maillot
- Jan Bucquoy
- Jan Kounen
- Jean-Charles Tacchella
- Jean Dréville
- Jean-François Stévenin
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Jean Rouch
- Joaquim de Almeida
- Joël Lautier
- John Berry
- Jonas Mekas
- Joseph Losey
- Julie Delpy
- Karl Zéro
- Ken Loach
- Kirill Razlogov
- Lou Castel
- Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Mai Zetterling
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Marie Rivière
- Maruschka Detmers
- Maurice Pialat
- Merzak Allouache
- Mireille Perrier
- Mrinal Sen
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Nicolas Boukhrief
- Pascal Bonitzer
- Patricia Millardet
- Paul Blain
- Philippe Garrel
- Pierre Carles
- Raúl Ruiz
- Richard Bohringer
- Roberto Benigni
- Salim Kechiouche
- Samuel Fuller
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Sergei Parajanov
- Sergio Citti
- Stéphane Audran
- Terry Gilliam
- Tina Aumont
- Togrul Narimanbekov
- Véronique Genest
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Wim Wenders
- Youssef Chahine
- Yulian Semyonov
- Zabou Breitman
- Zouzou
More details
director | Gérard Courant |
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theme | anthology avant-garde and experimental compilation experimental |