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.
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Cinématon Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Jean-Luc Godard
He was 47, now 93 years old
|
as Himself |
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Julie Delpy
She was 8, now 54 years old
|
as Herself |
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Terry Gilliam
He was 37, now 83 years old
|
as Himself |
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Gaspar Noé
He was 14, now 60 years old
|
as Himself |
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Roberto Benigni
He was 25, now 72 years old
|
as Himself |
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Harun Farocki
He was 34, 70 years old when he died
|
as himself |
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Serge Merlin
He was 45, 86 years old when he died
|
as N°158 |
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Gabrielle Lazure
She was 21, now 67 years old
|
as Herself |
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Philippe Garrel
He was 30, now 76 years old
|
as Himself |
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Nicoletta Braschi
She was 18, now 64 years old
|
as Herself |
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Zouzou
She was 34, now 80 years old
|
as Herself |
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Juliet Berto
She was 31, 42 years old when she died
|
as Herself |
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Nagisa Oshima
He was 46, 80 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Wim Wenders
He was 32, now 79 years old
|
as Himself |
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Derek Jarman
He was 36, 52 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Tonino De Bernardi
He was 41, now 87 years old
|
as Himself |
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Sergei Parajanov
He was 54, 66 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Maurice Pialat
He was 52, 77 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Mike Kuchar
He was 35, now 82 years old
|
as Himself |
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Sandrine Bonnaire
She was 10, now 57 years old
|
as Herself |
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Jean-Marie Straub
He was 45, now 91 years old
|
as Himself |
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Werner Nekes
He was 34, 72 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Volker Schlöndorff
He was 39, now 85 years old
|
as Himself |
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Yoshishige Yoshida
He was 45, now 91 years old
|
as Himself |
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Robert Kramer
He was 38, 60 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Jean Rouch
He was 60, 86 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Stephen Dwoskin
He was 39, 73 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
He was 30, now 77 years old
|
as Himself |
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Peter Kubelka
He was 44, now 90 years old
|
as Himself |
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Jacques Robiolles
He was 43, 82 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Paul Sharits
He was 35, 50 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Véronique Delbourg
She was 18, now 65 years old
|
as Herself |
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Fernando Arrabal
He was 45, now 92 years old
|
as Himself |
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James Broughton
He was 64, 85 years old when he died
|
as Himself |
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Danièle Huillet
She was 42, 70 years old when she died
|
as Herself |
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Michael Snow
He was 48, now 94 years old
|
as Himself |
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Ultra Violet
She was 42, 78 years old when she died
|
as Herself |
Cinématon Crew
