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