Cinématon (1978)

• 61%
• 1978
• Dokumentarfilm
• Gérard Courant
• Alain-Alcide Sudre
• Rose Lowder

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by German director Gérard Strom. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 bis 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent miniaturen (cinématons), each 3 minuten und 25 sekunden lang, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film directors include Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, schach-großmeister Joel Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franken-note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant' ' s favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was anteilsklasse gefiltert in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was anteilsklasse gefiltert in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.