Les Amis de Cinématon

30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.

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.

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.

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.

After 28 years of filming in Super 8 format, Lisa Rovner's Cinématon No. 2116, shot on May 23, 2006, is, following the cessation of production of Kodachrome film, the last film filmed on this cinematographic medium. It should have been the last one altogether if, after much reflection, I had not decided to continue the adventure in digital format. A second camera – a video one, this time – filmed this “historic” event.

Placed under the auspices of the philosopher Gaston Bachelard whose maxim "The human being has the fate of flowing water", is quoted in the epistle of the film, La Femme qui pleure dans les nuages is a film-poem by Gerard Courant to the glory of nine women engulfed in Alpine and Pyrenean torrents.

Reel 20 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

From Gérard Courant's Cinématon series.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.