Cinématon
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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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Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Known for
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Alain-Alcide Sudre
N°5
Also in
Cinématon I
Marie-Louise Alemann
Participant
Rose Lowder
N°6
Also in
Cinématon I
Halim Anou
Participant
Bernard Roué
N°7
Also in
Rasage
Cinématon I
Tina Aumont
Participant
Known for
Fellini's Casanova
Torso
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Also in
Hérésie pour Magritte V
The Colour of Words
Cécile Babiole
Participant
Katerina Thomadaki
N°9
Also in
Double Labyrinthe
Cristo
Martine Elzingre
N°12
Also in
Aditya
La Neige tremblait sur les arbres
Philippe Barassat
Participant
Also in
Aboubakar et moi (Chronique d'un confinement)
Eros & ARThanatos
Gérard Courant Director
United States release October 28, 2010 · Produced in France · Production Les Amis de Cinématon
Production
K.O.C.K. Production
Production
Les Amis de Cinématon
Production
France
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Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
France · May 11, 1978
Premiere · Journées du Cinéma Militant à Rennes
France · December 20, 1978
Limited theatrical · Galerie de l’Ouvertür, Paris
United States · October 28, 2010
Limited theatrical · Microscope Gallery, New York
Canada
October 18, 1985 · Limited theatrical · Festival International du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo, Montréal
May 30, 1986 · Limited theatrical · Galerie Dazibao, Montréal
September 18, 1997 · Limited theatrical · Festival International du Film Francophone en Acadie, Moncton
April 23, 1998 · Limited theatrical · Festival Images, Toronto
France
October 15, 1980 · Limited theatrical · Cinémathèque Française, Paris
November 4, 1981 · Limited theatrical · Centre Pompidou, Paris
December 10, 1985 · Limited theatrical · La Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais
March 2, 1988 · Limited theatrical · Centre Pompidou, Paris
January 2, 1991 · Limited theatrical · Cinémathèque Française, Paris
September 15, 1995 · Limited theatrical · Fête de l’Humanité, La Courneuve
November 16, 2011 · Limited theatrical · Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône
June 5, 2014 · Limited theatrical · Tri Postal, Lille
Germany
June 18, 1997 · Limited theatrical · Festival International du Court métrage, Hambourg
Greece
November 1, 1992 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Italy
September 21, 2010 · Limited theatrical · Lucca Film Festival, Lucca
Netherlands
January 22, 1987 · Limited theatrical · Cinéma Henri Alekan, La Haye
United Kingdom
September 13, 2019 · Limited theatrical · Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
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