Cinématon
1978 film directed by Gérard Courant
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Cinématon is a 157-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant.[2]
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| Directed by | Gérard Courant |
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Running time | 157 hours[1] |
It was the longest film ever released until 2011.[3][4] Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 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.[5] Subjects of the film include directors Sergey Parajanov, 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.[6] Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar.[3] Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby.[7] The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.[2][8]
