Raymond Depardon
Biography
Raymond Depardon is a photographer, a journalist and a filmmaker, but, above all, his eyes view humans with compassion. He respects others and is kind with the reality of their lives. He was born into a family of farmers in 1942 in Burgundy and went to Paris in 1958, wishing to be a photographer. He was first taken on as a messenger in an agency and was sent to take photos of an opening-night at the cinema: the movie was none other than Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. He finally established his own agency, Gamma, together with three reporters, in 1966 'not for money but for the freedom'. He suggested to set up a cinema department: 'we bought an Eclair- camera and tried to make news-films for television in addition to taking news-photograhs... It was then that I learned to hold the camera." When Depardon films people, he is silent. If one has the impression that he always keeps his eyes lowered in the face of the world's miseries, it is untrue. Raymond Depardon looks as through a lattice and reacts like quicksilver, keeping his deepest, innermost emotion secret, and allow his pictures to speak for themselves. His films are now screened in all international film festivals, from Cannes to Hong Kong.
Acting (13 movies)
Journal de France
2012
New York, N.Y.
1986
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
Profils paysans : l'approche
2001
Profils paysans : le quotidien
2005
Modern Life
2008
Donner la parole
2008
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Quoi de neuf au Garet?
2005
Un Moment Si Doux
2013
Untouched by the West
2003
La rouge et la noire
2011
Incognito
1990
Directing (47 movies)
Modern Life
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Profils paysans : l'approche
2001
Profils paysans : le quotidien
2005
1974, une partie de campagne
2002
Délits flagrants
1994
Lumière & Company
1995
Against Oblivion
1991
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial
2004
Journal de France
2012
Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon
1980
New York, N.Y.
1986
News Items
1983
The Declic Years
1984
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
1985
Captive of the Desert
1990
Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?
1996
Paris
1998
Reporters
1981
Untouched by the West
2003
Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad
1970
Urgences
1988
Muriel Leferle
1999
San Clemente
1982
Les Habitants
2016
Concerning Nice
1995
Tibesti Too
1976
Donner la parole
2008
Jan Palach
1969
12 Days
2017
Contacts
1990
Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)
1994
The Joy of Maths
2011
The 8th Floor
2014
Malraux
1996
Amour
1997
Face à la mer
1993
Quoi de neuf au Garet?
2005
Bolivia
1998
Numéros zéro
1981
Chasseurs et Chamans
2003
Tchad 3
1976
Une histoire très simple
1989
Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade
1970
Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum
1975
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
1985
La France de Raymond Depardon
2010
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Tibesti Too | 1976 | Producer |
| Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa | 1985 | Writer |
| Une histoire très simple | 1989 | Writer |
| Captive of the Desert | 1990 | Writer |
| Untouched by the West | 2003 | Writer |
| Profils paysans : le quotidien | 2005 | Writer |
| Modern Life | 2008 | Writer |