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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Anzhelika Nevolina
as N°1634
Bernard Roué
as N°7
Christian Lebrat
as N°150
Philippe Garrel
as N°193
Wim Wenders
as N°212
Fernando Arrabal
as N°442
Lionel Soukaz
as N°47
Samuel Fuller
as N°602
Véronique Delbourg
as N°804
Raphaël Bassan
as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Manoel de Oliveira
as N°102
Babette Mangolte
as N°31
Robert Kramer
as N°122
Noël Godin
as N°214
Sergei Parajanov
as N°1083
Raymonde Carasco
as N°32
Roland Lethem
as N°161
Jonas Mekas
as N°1590
Yvonne Rainer
as N°95
Robert Cahen
as N°2233
Jean-Luc Godard
as N°106
Marie Rivière
as N°172 / N°173
Philippe Sollers
as N°314
Ulrike Ottinger
as N°104
Peter Kubelka
as N°295
Joseph Morder
as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
F.J. Ossang
as N°52
Gina Lola Benzina
as N°53
Jean Douchet
as N°66
Charlotte Véry
as N°765
Teo Hernández
as N°16 / N°481
Ultra Violet
as N°1084
Michael Snow
as N°44
Gabriel Matzneff
as N°393 / N°2507
Serge Bard
as N°2026
Béatrice Romand
as N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
as N°600 / N°621
László Szabó
as N°282
Pascal Martin
as N°485
Nagisa Ōshima
as N°806
Imre Gyöngyössy
as N°174
Mireille Perrier
as N°505 / N°893
Gaël Badaud
as N°17
Juliet Berto
as N°441
Serge Merlin
as N°158
Yoshishige Yoshida
as N°789
Gérard Courant
as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Rosette
as N°192
James Broughton
as N°409
Margarethe von Trotta
as N°576
Nicoletta Braschi
as N°800
Frédérique Devaux
as N°1991
Volker Schlöndorff
as N°572
Stéphane Marti
as N°33
Frédéric Pardo
as N°318
Jean Rouch
as N°1256
Stephen Dwoskin
as N°121
Maurice Pialat
as N°236
Yann Beauvais
as N°322
Jean-Marie Straub
as N°342
Danièle Huillet
as N°343
Terry Gilliam
as N°601
Jean-Jacques Lebel
as N°1592
Derek Jarman
as N°105
Werner Nekes
as N°261
Sandrine Bonnaire
as N°238 / N°1742
Marcel Hanoun
as N°60
Howard Guttenplan
as N°65
Tonino De Bernardi
as N°1542
Gaspar Noé
as N°1749
Mauricio Hernández
as N°2052
Roberto Benigni
as N°801
Mike Kuchar
as N°1085
Dominique Noguez
as N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Martine Rousset
as N°22
Michel Nedjar
as N°27
Paul Sharits
as N°120
Harun Farocki
as N°1068
Joseph Losey
as N°76
Brigitte Sy
as N°250
Helmut Herbst
as N°262
Julie Delpy
as N°376
Barbet Schroeder
as N°651
Brigitte Lahaie
as N°1512
Daniel Pommereulle
as N°2023
Boris Lehman
as N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Jackie Raynal
as N°110 / N°2929
Zouzou
as N°1988
Patrick Deval
as N°1985
Jakobois
as N°251
Rose Lowder
as N°6
Katerina Thomadaki
as N°9
Jessica Forde
as N°608
Jaap Pieters
as N°2115
Gabrielle Lazure
as N°747