Les Amis de Cinématon

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.

Reel 28 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes.

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 38 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Reel 31 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.