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| Cinématon | |
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| Directed by | Gérard Courant |
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Running time | 157 hours[1] |
Cinématon is a 157-hour-longexperimental film by French directorGérard Courant.[2] It was thelongest film ever released until 2011.[3][4] Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 silentvignettes (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 directorsSergey Parajanov,Barbet Schroeder,Nagisa Oshima,Volker Schlöndorff,Ken Loach,Benjamin Cuq,Youssef Chahine,Wim Wenders,Joseph Losey,Jean-Luc Godard,Samuel Fuller andTerry Gilliam, chessgrandmasterJoël Lautier, and actorsRoberto Benigni,Stéphane Audran,Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley.[2] Gilliam is featured eating a100-franc note, while Fuller smokes acigar.[3] Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby.[5] The film was screened in its then-entirety inAvignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.[2][6]
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