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.
Gérard Courant
Alain-Alcide Sudre
Rose Lowder
Bernard Roué
Dominique Noguez
Katerina Thomadaki
Martine Elzingre
Teo Hernández
Gaël Badaud
Joseph Morder
Martine Rousset
Michel Nedjar
Babette Mangolte
Raymonde Carasco
Stéphane Marti
Boris Lehman
Raphaël Bassan
Michael Snow
Lionel Soukaz
F.J. Ossang
Gina Lola Benzina
Erwin Huppert
Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann
Marcel Hanoun
Stéphane Monclaire
Howard Guttenplan
Jean Douchet
Joseph Losey
Yvonne Rainer
Manoel de Oliveira
Ulrike Ottinger
Derek Jarman
Jean-Luc Godard
Conny Schenk
Jackie Raynal
Paul Sharits
Stephen Dwoskin
Robert Kramer
Jean-Michel Bouhours
Christian Lebrat
Serge Merlin
Roland Lethem
Marie Rivière
Imre Gyöngyössy
Doreen Canto
Kristin Kirkconnel
Rosette
Philippe Garrel
Wim Wenders
Noël Godin
Maurice Pialat
Sandrine Bonnaire
Alf Bold
Brigitte Sy
Jakobois
Werner Nekes
Helmut Herbst
Galaxie Barbouth
László Szabó
Peter Kubelka
Philippe Sollers
Frédéric Pardo
Lucia Fioravanti
Yann Beauvais
Philipe Bordier
Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet
Julie Delpy
Gabriel Matzneff
James Broughton
Juliet Berto
Fernando Arrabal
Jacques Monory
Pascal Martin
Mireille Perrier
Béatrice Romand
Michel Mardore
Volker Schlöndorff
Margarethe von Trotta
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Terry Gilliam
Samuel Fuller
Jessica Forde
Barbet Schroeder
Yasmine Haury
Gabrielle Lazure
Charlotte Véry
Yoshishige Yoshida
Mariola San Martin
Nicoletta Braschi
Roberto Benigni
Véronique Delbourg
Nagisa Ōshima
Harun Farocki
Sergei Parajanov
Ultra Violet
Mike Kuchar
Jean Rouch
Brigitte Lahaie
Tonino De Bernardi
Jonas Mekas
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Anzhelika Nevolina
Gaspar Noé
Patrick Deval
Zouzou
Frédérique Devaux
Daniel Pommereulle
Serge Bard
Jacques Robiolles
Mauricio Hernández
Leïla Colin-Navaï
Jaap Pieters
Robert Cahen
Benjamin Léon