La Fondation Gérard Courant

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.

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.

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

Cécile Almandaroz's portrait by Gérard Courant (1980 - silent).

A woman's face under the light of life.

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.

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!

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.

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

"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).

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.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

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.