Robert Cahen
1945 (80 лет)Cinématon
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant, Alain-Alcide Sudre
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.
Cinématon
Corps flottants
Robert Cahen
A Japan where time stands still; men and women bound to their land and their work; bodies floating in thermal springs... shown through the eyes of a painter (inspired by the characters in Sôseki's novel "Pillow of Herbs") where these references give a free interpretation to the images, so that we make the journey in search of temporary solace. The traveller has understood that "everywhere it is difficult to live" (Sôseki) and tries to make a picture from real things so that, through the act of painting, he no longer suffers.
Floating Bodies
Images du carnaval de Bâle
Robert Cahen
It was in 1973 that this film, the first film shot in Super 8 mm with magnetic sound, was broadcast on television. The Carnival of Basel is famous for the music of its fife-and-drum military bands. The imaginary quality of the carnival comes face to face with musique concrète.
Images du carnaval de Bâle
Kosmos
Ruben Guzman, Guzman Robert
Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the forest of emotions in a dreamlike way. But it is thanks to water and its light reflections, to its transforming power that the infinite “Kosmos” plays with our uncertainty.
Kosmos
