Cinématon (1978)
208h
Running Time
December 20, 1978Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000 / Director / Producer / Idea / Camera Operator / Cinematography
Alain-Alcide Sudre
N°5
Rose Lowder
N°6
Tina Aumont
Participant
Bernard Roué
N°7
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Katerina Thomadaki
N°9
Philippe Barassat
Participant
Martine Elzingre
N°12
Christian Barbier
Participant
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
Jean-Michel Barjol
Participant
Michel Nedjar
N°27
Babette Mangolte
N°31
Raymonde Carasco
N°32
Stéphane Marti
N°33
Boris Lehman
N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Raphaël Bassan
N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Michael Snow
N°44
Lionel Soukaz
N°47
F.J. Ossang
N°52
Gina Lola Benzina
N°53
Erwin Huppert
N°54
Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann
N°56
Marcel Hanoun
N°60
Stéphane Monclaire
N°61
Howard Guttenplan
N°65
Jean Douchet
N°66
Joseph Losey
N°76
Yvonne Rainer
N°95
Manoel de Oliveira
N°102
Ulrike Ottinger
N°104
Derek Jarman
N°105
Jean-Luc Godard
N°106
Conny Schenk
N°107
Jackie Raynal
N°110 / N°2929
Paul Sharits
N°120
Stephen Dwoskin
N°121
Robert Kramer
N°122
Jean-Michel Bouhours
N°145
Christian Lebrat
N°150
Serge Merlin
N°158
Roland Lethem
N°161
Marie Rivière
N°172 / N°173
Imre Gyöngyössy
N°174
Doreen Canto
N°179
Kristin Kirkconnel
N°180
Rosette
N°192
Philippe Garrel
N°193
Wim Wenders
N°212
Noël Godin
N°214
Maurice Pialat
N°236
Sandrine Bonnaire
N°238 / N°1742
Alf Bold
N°246
Brigitte Sy
N°250
Jakobois
N°251
Werner Nekes
N°261
Helmut Herbst
N°262
Galaxie Barbouth
N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895
László Szabó
N°282
Peter Kubelka
N°295
Philippe Sollers
N°314
Frédéric Pardo
N°318
Lucia Fioravanti
N°321 / N°368
Yann Beauvais
N°322
Philipe Bordier
N°340 / N°421
Jean-Marie Straub
N°342
Danièle Huillet
N°343
Julie Delpy
N°376
Gabriel Matzneff
N°393 / N°2507
James Broughton
N°409
Juliet Berto
N°441
Fernando Arrabal
N°442
Jacques Monory
N°458
Pascal Martin
N°485
Mireille Perrier
N°505 / N°893
Béatrice Romand
N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Michel Mardore
N°564
Volker Schlöndorff
N°572
Margarethe von Trotta
N°576
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
N°600 / N°621
Terry Gilliam
N°601
Samuel Fuller
N°602
Jessica Forde
N°608
Barbet Schroeder
N°651
Yasmine Haury
N°701
Gabrielle Lazure
N°747
Charlotte Véry
N°765
Yoshishige Yoshida
N°789
Mariola San Martin
N°796 / N°829 / N°908
Nicoletta Braschi
N°800
Roberto Benigni
N°801
Véronique Delbourg
N°804
Nagisa Ōshima
N°806
Harun Farocki
N°1068
Sergei Parajanov
N°1083
Ultra Violet
N°1084
Mike Kuchar
N°1085
Jean Rouch
N°1256
Brigitte Lahaie
N°1512
Tonino De Bernardi
N°1542
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Cinématon is a 157-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 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 in April 2010.
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