6 reviews
Documentary
208h
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...

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.
- DirectorGérard Courant
- Release20 December 1978
- GenreDocumentary
- Duration208h
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate6 reviews
- Productions
K.O.C.K. Production, Les Amis de Cinématon
Cast

Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000

Rose Lowder
N°6

Bernard Roué
N°7

Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319

Katerina Thomadaki
N°9

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

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

Marcel Hanoun
N°60

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

Jackie Raynal
N°110 / N°2929

Paul Sharits
N°120

Stephen Dwoskin
N°121

Robert Kramer
N°122

Christian Lebrat
N°150

Serge Merlin
N°158

Roland Lethem
N°161

Marie Rivière
N°172 / N°173

Imre Gyöngyössy
N°174

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

Brigitte Sy
N°250

Werner Nekes
N°261

Helmut Herbst
N°262

László Szabó
N°282

Peter Kubelka
N°295

Philippe Sollers
N°314

Frédéric Pardo
N°318

Yann Beauvais
N°322

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

Pascal Martin
N°485

Mireille Perrier
N°505 / N°893

Béatrice Romand
N°527 / N°764 / N°2215

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

Gabrielle Lazure
N°747

Charlotte Véry
N°765

Yoshishige Yoshida
N°789

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

Jonas Mekas
N°1590

Jean-Jacques Lebel
N°1592

Anzhelika Nevolina
N°1634

Gaspar Noé
N°1749

Patrick Deval
N°1985

Zouzou
N°1988

Frédérique Devaux
N°1991

Daniel Pommereulle
N°2023

Serge Bard
N°2026

Mauricio Hernández
N°2052

Jaap Pieters
N°2115

Robert Cahen
N°2233
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