La Fondation Gérard Courant

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

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)

Exploration (wandering) of La Defense district in West Paris.

Crépuscules crétois (August 26 and 27, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip in 1983 to Greece on the southern and northern coasts of Crete, to Frangokastello, Agios Vasilios, and Hania. The film visits the Preveli Monastery in Agios Vasilios and lingers at length in the port of Hania with its monumental warships.

Sifnos (September 1-4, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip to Greece in 1983, to the island of Sifnos, Vathy, Apollonia and Kástro.

Santorin (September 10-12, 1983) is the Carnet filmé of Gérard Courant's summer trip to the volcanic archipelago of Santorin (islands of Santorin and Nea Kameni), in Greece in 1983. The film explores these two islands at length, including Nea Kameni, located in the center of the archipelago, formed by the active part of the volcano.

During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes.

Promenade through the Eastern surburb of Paris (Montreuil-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Vincennes). From rural districts to the interchanges.

Ventus is a film made up of a single, half-hour-long, fixed sequence shot that shows the effects of wind on trees in the village of Priay, in the Ain department.

A woman's face under the light of life.

"Villagium" is a film made from a stationary one-and-a-half-hour shot, which shows the storm and the rain in the street, by the church in the village of Priay, Ain.

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

Pluvia is a film made up of a single fixed sequence shot, half an hour long, which shows a storm and rain in the village of Priay, in the Ain department.

Lyon 1983 is a stroll along the banks of the Saône and through Old Lyon. The film shows the Quai Saint-Vincent (seen from the Quai de Bondy), the Passerelle Saint-Vincent, Rue de la Juiverie, Rue Saint-Jean, a wedding in the Saint-Jean Cathedral, and the Passerelle Saint-Georges.

Film-poem by Gérard Courant to the glory of nine women plunged into the consuming flames of time.

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.

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.

Artemis is not a Cinématon in the strict sense of the term since the person being filmed - Artemis - is not an individual but a statue! This portrait is therefore not part of the Cinématon anthology and is, consequently, outside the collection. In Greek mythology, Artemis, filmed here on the Acropolis in Athens, was the goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and the moon. Of course, this Cinematon is not a real one, but it gives a fairly precise idea of ​​what the one of the goddess Artemis could have been like if the cinematograph had been invented more than 2000 years earlier! (Gérard Courant)