Cinématon

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.

Cast for Cinématon...

Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Teo Hernández
N°16 / N°481
Joseph Morder
N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Boris Lehman
N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Raphaël Bassan
N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Jackie Raynal
N°110 / N°2929
Marie Rivière
N°172 / N°173
Rosette
N°192
Sandrine Bonnaire
N°238 / N°1742
Alf Bold
N°246
Jakobois
N°251
Galaxie Barbouth
N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895
Lucia Fioravanti
N°321 / N°368
Philipe Bordier
N°340 / N°421
Gabriel Matzneff
N°393 / N°2507
Mireille Perrier
N°505 / N°893
Béatrice Romand
N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
N°600 / N°621
Mariola San Martin
N°796 / N°829 / N°908
Jean Rouch
N°1256
Zouzou
N°1988
Serge Bard
N°2026