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Cinématon
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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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1978-12-20
fr
Cast
Director
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant as N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Rose Lowder as N°6
Bernard Roué as N°7
Dominique Noguez as N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Katerina Thomadaki as N°9
Teo Hernández as N°16 / N°481
Joseph Morder as N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Martine Rousset as N°22
Michel Nedjar as N°27
Babette Mangolte as N°31
Raymonde Carasco as N°32
Stéphane Marti as N°33
Raphaël Bassan as N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050
Michael Snow as N°44
Lionel Soukaz as N°47
F.J. Ossang as N°52
Gina Lola Benzina as N°53
Marcel Hanoun as N°60
Howard Guttenplan as N°65
Jean Douchet as N°66
Joseph Losey as N°76
Yvonne Rainer as N°95
Manoel de Oliveira as N°102
Ulrike Ottinger as N°104
Derek Jarman as N°105
Jean-Luc Godard as N°106
Jackie Raynal as N°110 / N°2929
Paul Sharits as N°120
Robert Kramer as N°122
Christian Lebrat as N°150
Serge Merlin as N°158
Roland Lethem as N°161
Marie Rivière as N°172 / N°173
Imre Gyöngyössy as N°174
Rosette as N°192
Philippe Garrel as N°193
Wim Wenders as N°212
Noël Godin as N°214
Maurice Pialat as N°236
Sandrine Bonnaire as N°238 / N°1742
Brigitte Sy as N°250
Jakobois as N°251
Werner Nekes as N°261
Helmut Herbst as N°262
László Szabó as N°282
Peter Kubelka as N°295
Philippe Sollers as N°314
Frédéric Pardo as N°318
Jean-Marie Straub as N°342
Danièle Huillet as N°343
Julie Delpy as N°376
Gabriel Matzneff as N°393 / N°2507
James Broughton as N°409
Juliet Berto as N°441
Fernando Arrabal as N°442
Pascal Martin as N°485
Mireille Perrier as N°505 / N°893
Béatrice Romand as N°527 / N°764 / N°2215
Volker Schlöndorff as N°572
Margarethe von Trotta as N°576
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor as N°600 / N°621
Terry Gilliam as N°601
Samuel Fuller as N°602
Jessica Forde as N°608
Barbet Schroeder as N°651
Gabrielle Lazure as N°747
Charlotte Véry as N°765
Yoshishige Yoshida as N°789
Nicoletta Braschi as N°800
Roberto Benigni as N°801
Véronique Delbourg as N°804
Nagisa Ōshima as N°806
Harun Farocki as N°1068
Sergei Parajanov as N°1083
Ultra Violet as N°1084
Mike Kuchar as N°1085
Jean Rouch as N°1256
Brigitte Lahaie as N°1512
Tonino De Bernardi as N°1542
Jonas Mekas as N°1590
Jean-Jacques Lebel as N°1592
Anzhelika Nevolina as N°1634
Gaspar Noé as N°1749
Patrick Deval as N°1985
Zouzou as N°1988
Frédérique Devaux as N°1991
Daniel Pommereulle as N°2023
Serge Bard as N°2026
Jacques Robiolles as N°2028
Mauricio Hernández as N°2052
Jaap Pieters as N°2115
Robert Cahen as N°2233
Jean-Marc Rouillan as Self