Les Archives de l’Art Cinématonique
In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont 2016
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.
Joseph Morder à Madrid, la neige à Montreuil 2012
Madrid, a stroll in the Spanish capital with Joseph Morder followed by the snowstorm that paralyzed the Paris region on December 8, 2010.
Werner et Nenad 2010
Dis-nous ce que tu sais 2023
Every Good Friday, since 1980, I have filmed the reconstruction of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in Ardèche, where the inhabitants, for seven centuries, have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. . “Dis-nous ce que tu sais” is the report of the Good Friday ceremonial of the year 2023 in Burzet.
Alicudi 1 Bella 2011
A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.
Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl 2021
"Les Malheurs d'Émile Cohl" shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film "Les Chapeaux des belles dames" which Émile Cohl shot in 1909. Slowing down the most damaged parts of the film from the father of the animation, Gérard Courant has succeeded in creating an object with abstract shapes and, paradoxically, in giving another life to Cohl's work." --Courant
Marilyn 2012
The films of Marilyn Monroe, sped up by Gerard Courant.
Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé 2023
"Les Malheurs d'Yvan Noé" shows the ravages of time on the film A Death Without Importance that Yvan Noé shot in 1948. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the French filmmaker's film, I managed to create a object with abstract shapes and, insidiously, to give another life to an artistic work. - Gérard Courant
Ergasterium Atomicum 2021
Filmed with a telephoto lens, from the heights of the village of Priay, the four pressurized water reactors at the Bugey nuclear power plant in Saint-Vulbas. The village and its bell tower in the foreground was where, as a child, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spent his holidays.
Philippe Garrel à Digne (Second voyage) 2010
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.