Cinématon
Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Ulrike Ottinger
as N°104
Raymonde Carasco
as N°32
Robert Kramer
as N°122
Sandrine Bonnaire
as N°238 / N°1742
Helmut Herbst
as N°262
Frédéric Pardo
as N°318
Jonas Mekas
as N°1590
Stephen Dwoskin
as N°121
Noël Godin
as N°214
Fernando Arrabal
as N°442
Mireille Perrier
as N°505 / N°893
Volker Schlöndorff
as N°572
Paul Sharits
as N°120
Serge Merlin
as N°158
Jessica Forde
as N°608
Sergei Parajanov
as N°1083
Gérard Courant
as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Katerina Thomadaki
as N°9
Stéphane Marti
as N°33
Samuel Fuller
as N°602
Nagisa Ōshima
as N°806
Anzhelika Nevolina
as N°1634
Robert Cahen
as N°2233
Jackie Raynal
as N°110 / N°2929
Terry Gilliam
as N°601
Brigitte Lahaie
as N°1512
Zouzou
as N°1988
Gaël Badaud
as N°17
Lionel Soukaz
as N°47
Véronique Delbourg
as N°804
F.J. Ossang
as N°52
Jean-Jacques Lebel
as N°1592
Yann Beauvais
as N°322
Pascal Martin
as N°485
László Szabó
as N°282
Barbet Schroeder
as N°651
Nicoletta Braschi
as N°800
Frédérique Devaux
as N°1991
Teo Hernández
as N°16 / N°481
Michel Nedjar
as N°27
Gina Lola Benzina
as N°53
Roberto Benigni
as N°801
Patrick Deval
as N°1985
Bernard Roué
as N°7
Dominique Noguez
as N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
as N°600 / N°621
Mike Kuchar
as N°1085
Raphaël Bassan
as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Jean-Luc Godard
as N°106
Rosette
as N°192
Julie Delpy
as N°376
Roland Lethem
as N°161
Serge Bard
as N°2026
Manoel de Oliveira
as N°102
Philippe Sollers
as N°314
James Broughton
as N°409
Joseph Losey
as N°76
Charlotte Véry
as N°765
Rose Lowder
as N°6
Boris Lehman
as N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Michael Snow
as N°44
Yvonne Rainer
as N°95
Philippe Garrel
as N°193
Gaspar Noé
as N°1749
Béatrice Romand
as N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Mauricio Hernández
as N°2052
Jaap Pieters
as N°2115
Howard Guttenplan
as N°65
Jean Douchet
as N°66
Brigitte Sy
as N°250
Tonino De Bernardi
as N°1542
Christian Lebrat
as N°150
Imre Gyöngyössy
as N°174
Margarethe von Trotta
as N°576
Peter Kubelka
as N°295
Danièle Huillet
as N°343
Gabriel Matzneff
as N°393 / N°2507
Jean Rouch
as N°1256
Joseph Morder
as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Werner Nekes
as N°261
Jean-Marie Straub
as N°342
Gabrielle Lazure
as N°747
Ultra Violet
as N°1084
Babette Mangolte
as N°31
Marcel Hanoun
as N°60
Yoshishige Yoshida
as N°789
Daniel Pommereulle
as N°2023
Derek Jarman
as N°105
Maurice Pialat
as N°236
Juliet Berto
as N°441
Harun Farocki
as N°1068
Marie Rivière
as N°172 / N°173
Wim Wenders
as N°212
Martine Rousset
as N°22