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