Cinématon
1978 · 12480 min · Documentary
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.
- Director
- Gérard Courant
- Released
- December 20, 1978
- Language
- French
Cast
Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Alain-Alcide Sudre
N°5
Rose Lowder
N°6
Bernard Roué
N°7
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Katerina Thomadaki
N°9
Martine Elzingre
N°12
Teo Hernández
N°16 / N°481
Gaël Badaud
N°17
Joseph Morder
N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Martine Rousset
N°22
Michel Nedjar
N°27
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