Biography

Gérard Courant was born on December 4, 1951 in Lyon, France. He is a director and writer, known for Je meurs de soif, j'étouffe, je ne puis crier... (1979), Antonin Artaud, correspondance avec Jacques Rivière (1977) and Lâzward (2ème partie de la Tétralogie Les Chemins Cinétiques) (2014).

Son of historian René Courant.

Starting in the summer of 1977, Gerard Courant launched a series of three minute "cinematons, " in which he fixed his camera on the face of a prominent cultural figure, without sound, and let his subject improvise.