Les Amis de Cinématon

An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 2 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 13 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.

This episode of Carnets filmés, Délices lointains, which spans the year 2004, reaches its climax in its last part with my trip to Mexico with the photographer Barbara Peón Solis.

Zones césariennes (which covers the year 2002) is one of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot on film. These episodes now coexist with their counterparts filmed on videotape. They are two films with parallel lives but opposing destinies, colliding and eyeing each other warily. They represent two approaches, two styles, two different ways of understanding cinema. Two methods for unfolding time, grasping memory, and exploring the world.

Reel 21 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 3 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 6 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 19 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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.

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

Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 31 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.