Les Archives de l’Art Cinématonique

Courant registered Garrel’s dialogues in order to produce his first urgent film, the first of his essays inquiring the state of current cinema. As a synthesis for the 20th century, Garrel invoked his relationship with Freud, Henri Langlois, Orson Welles, Marx, The Rolling Stones, Godard, Warhol, Picasso and Bergman and draw a territory in that different kind of cinema also inhabited by Courant’s art. Four years later –as a sequel, and a first example of Courant’s series– there was another meeting with Garrel, where again the filmmaker adds names related to his sensitivity, such as Murnau, Von Stroheim, the Lumière brothers, Abel Gance, Polanski, Rivette; the writers André Breton and Gabriele d’Annunzio; and the actresses Anna Karina, Nico, Zouzou and Maria Schneider –three stars of his films. (Diego Trerotola)

On the occasion of the 7th meetings of Digne, Pour un autre cinéma, organized by Pierre Queyrel and which presented a retrospective of Philippe Garrel's cinematographic work, this film is the sound recording of the discussion that the filmmaker made with the audience after the screening of his films Marie pour mémoire, Athanor, Voyage au jardin des morts and Le Bleu des origines.

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.

Exploration (wandering) of La Defense district in West Paris.

Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along with Jean Eustache, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Philippe Garrel were the most innovative filmmakers of the post-New Wave era.

Promenade through the Eastern surburb of Paris (Montreuil-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Vincennes). From rural districts to the interchanges.

In March 1977, I published a poem about Magdalena Montezuma, actress, collaborator, and inspiration of German filmmaker Werner Schroeter, in issue 13 of the magazine Les Soleils d'Infernalia . This poem was included in my book Werner Schroeter, published by the Cinémathèque Française and the Goethe Institut in January 1982. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of my encounter with this brilliant actress, who passed away too soon, at the Berlin Film Festival in February 1980, I printed the text of this poem directly onto around twenty frames of The Death of Maria Malibran , Werner Schroeter's masterpiece.

"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.

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

Made up of nine long sequence shots, Hinnis is an episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés which celebrates the Ain River in spring in Priay.

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

This unofficial Cinématon is one of two that Gérard Courant filmed on January 25, 2001. The second Cinématon, filmed in a tighter cinematic frame on the same day as his other non-collection Cinématon, is called Encore cinématé!

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for 15 years.

"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.

Flumen is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, lasting 4 minutes, which shows the Ain River at the height of the Priay bridge.

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for15 years.