Cinématon - 2019

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.

12480min
2019
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10

Cast

Gérard Courant profile pictureGérard CourantN°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Dominique Noguez profile pictureDominique NoguezN°8 / N°71 / N°319
Teo Hernández profile pictureTeo HernándezN°16 / N°481
Joseph Morder profile pictureJoseph MorderN°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Boris Lehman profile pictureBoris LehmanN°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Raphaël Bassan profile pictureRaphaël BassanN°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Jackie Raynal profile pictureJackie RaynalN°110 / N°2929
Marie Rivière profile pictureMarie RivièreN°172 / N°173
Rosette profile pictureRosetteN°192
Sandrine Bonnaire profile pictureSandrine BonnaireN°238 / N°1742
Jakobois profile pictureJakoboisN°251
Gabriel Matzneff profile pictureGabriel MatzneffN°393 / N°2507
Mireille Perrier profile pictureMireille PerrierN°505 / N°893
Béatrice Romand profile pictureBéatrice RomandN°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor profile picturePatrick Poivre d'ArvorN°600 / N°621
Jean Rouch profile pictureJean RouchN°1256
Zouzou profile pictureZouzouN°1988
Serge Bard profile pictureSerge BardN°2026

About Cinématon

Cinématon Overview

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.

Runtime: 12480min

Extra details

Original Title: Cinématon
Original Language: French
Directed By: Gérard Courant
Production Companies
K.O.C.K. ProductionLes Amis de Cinématon