Cinématon
4.3
12480 minutes
12/20/1978
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.
Cast List
Gérard Courant
as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Alain-Alcide Sudre
as N°5
Rose Lowder
as N°6
Bernard Roué
as N°7
Dominique Noguez
as N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Katerina Thomadaki
as N°9
Martine Elzingre
as N°12
Teo Hernández
as N°16 / N°481
Gaël Badaud
as N°17
Joseph Morder
as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Martine Rousset
as N°22
Michel Nedjar
as N°27
Babette Mangolte
as N°31
Raymonde Carasco
as N°32
Stéphane Marti
as N°33
Boris Lehman
as N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292
Raphaël Bassan
as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Michael Snow
as N°44
Lionel Soukaz
as N°47
F.J. Ossang
as N°52
Gina Lola Benzina
as N°53
Erwin Huppert
as N°54
Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann
as N°56
Marcel Hanoun
as N°60
Stéphane Monclaire
as N°61
Howard Guttenplan
as N°65
Jean Douchet
as N°66
Joseph Losey
as N°76
Yvonne Rainer
as N°95
Manoel de Oliveira
as N°102
Ulrike Ottinger
as N°104
Derek Jarman
as N°105
Jean-Luc Godard
as N°106
Conny Schenk
as N°107
Jackie Raynal
as N°110 / N°2929
Paul Sharits
as N°120
Stephen Dwoskin
as N°121
Robert Kramer
as N°122
Jean-Michel Bouhours
as N°145
Christian Lebrat
as N°150
Serge Merlin
as N°158
Roland Lethem
as N°161
Marie Rivière
as N°172 / N°173
Imre Gyöngyössy
as N°174
Doreen Canto
as N°179
Kristin Kirkconnel
as N°180
Rosette
as N°192
Philippe Garrel
as N°193
Wim Wenders
as N°212
Noël Godin
as N°214
Maurice Pialat
as N°236
Sandrine Bonnaire
as N°238 / N°1742
Alf Bold
as N°246
Brigitte Sy
as N°250
Jakobois
as N°251
Werner Nekes
as N°261
Helmut Herbst
as N°262
Galaxie Barbouth
as N°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895
László Szabó
as N°282
Peter Kubelka
as N°295
Philippe Sollers
as N°314
Frédéric Pardo
as N°318
Lucia Fioravanti
as N°321 / N°368
Yann Beauvais
as N°322
Philipe Bordier
as N°340 / N°421
Jean-Marie Straub
as N°342
Danièle Huillet
as N°343
Julie Delpy
as N°376
Gabriel Matzneff
as N°393 / N°2507
James Broughton
as N°409
Juliet Berto
as N°441
Fernando Arrabal
as N°442
Jacques Monory
as N°458
Pascal Martin
as N°485
Mireille Perrier
as N°505 / N°893
Béatrice Romand
as N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Michel Mardore
as N°564
Volker Schlöndorff
as N°572
Margarethe von Trotta
as N°576
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
as N°600 / N°621
Terry Gilliam
as N°601
Samuel Fuller
as N°602
Jessica Forde
as N°608
Barbet Schroeder
as N°651
Yasmine Haury
as N°701
Gabrielle Lazure
as N°747
Charlotte Véry
as N°765
Yoshishige Yoshida
as N°789
Mariola San Martin
as N°796 / N°829 / N°908
Nicoletta Braschi
as N°800
Roberto Benigni
as N°801
Véronique Delbourg
as N°804
Nagisa Ōshima
as N°806
Harun Farocki
as N°1068
Sergei Parajanov
as N°1083
Ultra Violet
as N°1084
Mike Kuchar
as N°1085
Jean Rouch
as N°1256
Brigitte Lahaie
as N°1512
Tonino De Bernardi
as N°1542
Jonas Mekas
as N°1590
Jean-Jacques Lebel
as N°1592
Anzhelika Nevolina
as N°1634
Gaspar Noé
as N°1749
Patrick Deval
as N°1985
Zouzou
as N°1988
Frédérique Devaux
as N°1991
Daniel Pommereulle
as N°2023
Serge Bard
as N°2026
Jacques Robiolles
as N°2028
Mauricio Hernández
as N°2052
Leïla Colin-Navaï
as N°2083
Jaap Pieters
as N°2115
Robert Cahen
as N°2233
Benjamin Léon
as N°2717