Les Amis de Cinématon

Reel 14 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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)

Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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.

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.

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

Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to do what they want.

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book.

Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.