Cinématon

Cinématon

12480 mins | Documentary | Dec. 20, 1978

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.

Cinématon

12480 mins | Documentary | Dec. 20, 1978

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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Les Amis de Cinématon, K.O.C.K. Production
Original title Cinématon
Directors Gérard Courant
Writers Gérard Courant

Cast

Gérard Courant

as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000

Rose Lowder

as N°6

Bernard Roué

as N°7

Dominique Noguez

as N°8 / N°71 / N°319

Martine Elzingre

as N°12

Teo Hernández

as N°16 / N°481

Gaël Badaud

as N°17

Joseph Morder

as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119

Martine Rousset

as N°22

Michel Nedjar

as N°27

Babette Mangolte

as N°31

Raymonde Carasco

as N°32

Stéphane Marti

as N°33

Boris Lehman

as N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292

Raphaël Bassan

as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050

Michael Snow

as N°44

Lionel Soukaz

as N°47

F.J. Ossang

as N°52

Erwin Huppert

as N°54

Marcel Hanoun

as N°60

Jean Douchet

as N°66

Joseph Losey

as N°76

Yvonne Rainer

as N°95

Manoel de Oliveira

as N°102

Ulrike Ottinger

as N°104

Derek Jarman

as N°105

Jean-Luc Godard

as N°106

Conny Schenk

as N°107

Jackie Raynal

as N°110 / N°2929

Paul Sharits

as N°120

Stephen Dwoskin

as N°121

Robert Kramer

as N°122

Christian Lebrat

as N°150

Serge Merlin

as N°158

Roland Lethem

as N°161

Marie Rivière

as N°172 / N°173

Imre Gyöngyössy

as N°174

Doreen Canto

as N°179

Kristin Kirkconnel

as N°180

Rosette

as N°192

Philippe Garrel

as N°193

Wim Wenders

as N°212

Noël Godin

as N°214

Maurice Pialat

as N°236

Sandrine Bonnaire

as N°238 / N°1742

Alf Bold

as N°246

Brigitte Sy

as N°250

Jakobois

as N°251

Werner Nekes

as N°261

Helmut Herbst

as N°262

Galaxie Barbouth

as N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895

László Szabó

as N°282

Peter Kubelka

as N°295

Philippe Sollers

as N°314

Frédéric Pardo

as N°318

Lucia Fioravanti

as N°321 / N°368

Yann Beauvais

as N°322

Philipe Bordier

as N°340 / N°421

Jean-Marie Straub

as N°342

Danièle Huillet

as N°343

Julie Delpy

as N°376

Gabriel Matzneff

as N°393 / N°2507

James Broughton

as N°409

Juliet Berto

as N°441

Fernando Arrabal

as N°442

Jacques Monory

as N°458

Pascal Martin

as N°485

Mireille Perrier

as N°505 / N°893

Béatrice Romand

as N°527 / N°764 / N°2215

Michel Mardore

as N°564

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

as N°600 / N°621

Terry Gilliam

as N°601

Samuel Fuller

as N°602

Jessica Forde

as N°608

Barbet Schroeder

as N°651

Yasmine Haury

as N°701

Gabrielle Lazure

as N°747

Charlotte Véry

as N°765

Yoshishige Yoshida

as N°789

Mariola San Martin

as N°796 / N°829 / N°908

Nicoletta Braschi

as N°800

Roberto Benigni

as N°801

Nagisa Ōshima

as N°806

Harun Farocki

as N°1068

Sergei Parajanov

as N°1083

Ultra Violet

as N°1084

Mike Kuchar

as N°1085

Jean Rouch

as N°1256

Brigitte Lahaie

as N°1512

Tonino De Bernardi

as N°1542

Jonas Mekas

as N°1590

Jean-Jacques Lebel

as N°1592

Anzhelika Nevolina

as N°1634

Gaspar Noé

as N°1749

Patrick Deval

as N°1985

Zouzou

as N°1988

Frédérique Devaux

as N°1991

Daniel Pommereulle

as N°2023

Serge Bard

as N°2026

Jacques Robiolles

as N°2028

Mauricio Hernandez

as N°2052

Leïla Colin-Navaï

as N°2083

Jaap Pieters

as N°2115

Robert Cahen

as N°2233