Jaap Pieters

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.

De kopjesdans

Jaap Pieters

High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine.

De Woedende met fles & blik

Jaap Pieters

A furious man with a bottle and can...

Schreeuwman

Jaap Pieters

This silent film provokes the anger of the man in our heads, the anger we can see but can't hear & at the same time the man tries to acquire something from the passers-by that either seems to be ignored, not understood or not available... & again the anger bursts out....

Vleesvervoer

Jaap Pieters

From his bedroom window on the second floor, Pieters films the unloading of meat.

Michelsschaduwwerking

Jaap Pieters

At Michel's home in Zurich, the shade of flowers dance upon a window curtain.

Het gewicht (AKA Who's Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue)

Jaap Pieters

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

Kim & Steven

Jaap Pieters

Kim, a dancer, gets a foot massage from Steven, a drummer.

Jimmy's Ballet

Jaap Pieters

A homeless man in a street-worker’s jacket enthusiastically regulates traffic in De Pijp.

De Winkelwagenman

Jaap Pieters

A homeless man tries to keep his daily movements in line and order... The intimacy of a private life on the street, filmed from the inside of a third floor apartment.

De Vliegenier

Jaap Pieters, Jaap Pieters

A man stands on a sidewalk, holding a model airplane aloft...

De blikjesman

Jaap Pieters

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

14Reels

Massimo Bacigalupo, Tonino De Bernardi

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

Taksimboom

Jaap Pieters

A tree stands at the foot a towering wooden structure in Istanbul.

Mersey-side

Jaap Pieters

The bottom of the river is dug up then dumped again.

Snaarloos

Jaap Pieters

A man stands in the middle of the market, playing a stringless ukulele.