Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections 2011

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Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

2011

Dérapages

Dérapages 2020

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

2020

In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont

In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont 2016

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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.

2016

Dis-nous ce que tu sais

Dis-nous ce que tu sais 2023

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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.

2023

Abel Ferrara in Lucca

Abel Ferrara in Lucca 2012

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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.

2012