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.
Release Date
December 20, 1978Runtime
12480 minGenres
DocumentaryDirected by
Gérard CourantLanguage
FrenchBudget
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ReleasedCast
Rose Lowder
N°6Bernard Roué
N°7Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319Katerina Thomadaki
N°9Teo Hernández
N°16 / N°481Gaël Badaud
N°17Joseph Morder
N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119Martine Rousset
N°22Michel Nedjar
N°27Babette Mangolte
N°31Raymonde Carasco
N°32Stéphane Marti
N°33Boris Lehman
N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292Raphaël Bassan
N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050Michael Snow
N°44F.J. Ossang
N°52Gina Lola Benzina
N°53Marcel Hanoun
N°60Howard Guttenplan
N°65Jean Douchet
N°66Joseph Losey
N°76Yvonne Rainer
N°95Manoel de Oliveira
N°102Ulrike Ottinger
N°104Derek Jarman
N°105Jean-Luc Godard
N°106Paul Sharits
N°120Stephen Dwoskin
N°121Robert Kramer
N°122Christian Lebrat
N°150Serge Merlin
N°158Roland Lethem
N°161Marie Rivière
N°172 / N°173Imre Gyöngyössy
N°174Rosette
N°192Philippe Garrel
N°193Wim Wenders
N°212Noël Godin
N°214Maurice Pialat
N°236Sandrine Bonnaire
N°238 / N°1742Brigitte Sy
N°250Jakobois
N°251Werner Nekes
N°261Helmut Herbst
N°262László Szabó
N°282Philippe Sollers
N°314Frédéric Pardo
N°318Yann Beauvais
N°322Jean-Marie Straub
N°342Danièle Huillet
N°343Julie Delpy
N°376Gabriel Matzneff
N°393 / N°2507James Broughton
N°409Juliet Berto
N°441Fernando Arrabal
N°442Pascal Martin
N°485Mireille Perrier
N°505 / N°893Béatrice Romand
N°527 / N°764 / N°2215Volker Schlöndorff
N°572Margarethe von Trotta
N°576Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
N°600 / N°621Terry Gilliam
N°601Samuel Fuller
N°602Jessica Forde
N°608Barbet Schroeder
N°651Gabrielle Lazure
N°747Charlotte Véry
N°765Yoshishige Yoshida
N°789Nicoletta Braschi
N°800Roberto Benigni
N°801Véronique Delbourg
N°804Nagisa Ōshima
N°806Harun Farocki
N°1068Sergei Parajanov
N°1083Ultra Violet
N°1084Mike Kuchar
N°1085Jean Rouch
N°1256Brigitte Lahaie
N°1512Tonino De Bernardi
N°1542Jonas Mekas
N°1590Jean-Jacques Lebel
N°1592Anzhelika Nevolina
N°1634Gaspar Noé
N°1749Patrick Deval
N°1985Zouzou
N°1988Frédérique Devaux
N°1991Daniel Pommereulle
N°2023Serge Bard
N°2026Mauricio Hernández
N°2052Jaap Pieters
N°2115Robert Cahen
N°2233