Les Archives de l’Art Cinématonique

A simple, modest and faithful record of some moments at the Lucca Film Festival in October 2010, with songs and speeches by Abel Ferrara: trace of the co-presence of two of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, dissident and true sons of Cesare Zavattini’s revolutionary spirit.

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.

On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré.

"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his work in general. Our meeting took place on the terrace of the Hotel Majestic, in the midst of excitement of the Cannes festival life, a few days after the screening of Nel Regno di Napoli and in the presence of the photographer Jean-Claude Moireau. Vivre à Naples et mourir is the audio capture of that informal meeting that happened on 20 May 1978 and which is, as per director's wish, more like a casual conversation than an interview in the strict sense of the term (a set of questions and answers).

On the occasion of the reading, by the actress Béatrice Romand, of my book of poetry The Garden of Origins for the association "Donneurs de voix", Enregistrement is the capture of this reading on video.

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 cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.

On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.

Patrick Deval, known as Bambou, the author of the cult film Acéphale, is celebrating his birthday.

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 the commune of Priay, in the Ain department, which shows the Château des Allymes. (As the crow flies, these two places are separated by 11 kilometers).

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.

A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.

Travelling through kms of concrete and urbanisation before reaching the ocean.

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 shrubs which line the Ain River in Priay.

From January 17 to 20, 2014, Gérard Courant returned to Nice to screen his film "Le Journal de Joseph M" at the Mercury Cinema. This visit gave him the opportunity to continue his "Carnets filmés", from which he brought back four episodes. In this second Nice episode, "Le Journal de Joseph M à Nice" (January 18, 2014), Gérard Courant filmed: * The lobby of the Mercury Cinema before the screening of "Le Journal de Joseph M". * The introduction to the film by Vincent Jourdan. * A discussion between Gérard Courant and Joseph Morder, the film's lead actor, with the audience at the cinema following the screening.

Périssable paradis II (Notes pour un monde nouveau) is therefore the result of an anachronism. Indeed, it benefited from funding that I never requested, whereas many of my films were produced without any financial assistance, even though I did everything I could to secure it!