Gérard Courant Movies

"Lyon in 96 minutes" is, with a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot lasting one hour and 36 minutes, a stroll through the city of Lyon...

"Ave, Patrick Topaloff !" is a film that parodies an advertisement for Bahlsen candy bars sold in theaters during intermission. The protagonist of...

Made in Paris presents the Institute of Tropical Agronomy in the Bois de Vincennes and its Asian and African monuments.

"(Daniel) Petit Lu" is a film which celebrates Petit Beurre by the Nantes company LU. The title of the film is a pun between the actor - Daniel Petit...

"Every Good Friday, since 1980, I film the ceremonial of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in the...

Le Blanc Cassé is a pedestrian drift, camera in hand, which starts on rue Gazan in the 14th arrondissement and ends near the Palais de...

"During the invitation to a film festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I presented the Cinématon and my feature film Blue Heart (which won a...

A journey through Bourgogne and Dijon where he lived for 15 years.

Notes Lyonnaises I (October 29, 2002 to November 2, 2006) is the first of the four episodes of the Filmed Carnets that the filmmaker shot on the...

"Inventaire filmé des rues et places de Lyon avec des noms d’universitaires" presents all 92 streets (as well as the alleys, avenues,...

Les Deux Lyon is, in a subjective camera and in a single sequence of just over an hour, a wandering through the city of Lyon that begins from the...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

This new episode of the Notebooks is entitled The New Desert (4 March 1998 to 26 November 1998). These are years of cinematographic maturity in a...

Route d'argent is a journey through three Atlantic Canadian provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The film takes in...

"Pons" is a film made of a single fixed-sequence shot, lasting half an hour, which shows the Ain river and the Priay bridge spanning it.

The film is a cinematic stroll through the city of Genoa and an exploration of the alleys in the city centre. It also shows the palaces, churches and...

There are certain recurring themes: travel, desolate landscapes (especially in the Vivarais region), love of the cinema, the pleasure of wandering...

Notes Lyonnaises II (April 4, 2007 to October 20, 2010) is the second of the four episodes of the Carnets filmed that the filmmaker shot on the...