Raymond Depardon
Directing
1942-07-06 · Villefranche-sur-Saône
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.
Filmography
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023 · Movie
Mon arbre
2019 · Movie
12 Days
2017 · Movie
Les Habitants
2016 · Movie
The 8th Floor
2014 · Movie
Un Moment Si Doux
2013 · Movie
Journal de France
2012 · Movie
The Joy of Maths
2011 · Movie
La rouge et la noire
2011 · Movie
La France de Raymond Depardon
2010 · Movie
Modern Life
2008 · Movie
Donner la parole
2008 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
Quoi de neuf au Garet?
2005 · Movie
Profiles Farmers: Daily Life
2005 · Movie
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial
2004 · Movie
Untouched by the West
2003 · Movie
Chasseurs et Chamans
2003 · Movie
1974, une partie de campagne
2002 · Movie
Profiles Farmers: The Approach
2001 · Movie
Muriel Leferle
1999 · Movie
Paris
1998 · Movie
Bolivia
1998 · Movie
Amour
1997 · Movie
Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?
1996 · Movie
Malraux
1996 · Movie
Lumière & Company
1995 · Movie
Concerning Nice
1995 · Movie
Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)
1994 · Movie
Caught in the Acts
1994 · Movie
Lest We Forget
1991 · Movie
Incognito
1990 · Movie
Contacts
1990 · Movie
Captive of the Desert
1990 · Movie
Une histoire très simple
1989 · Movie
Emergencies
1988 · Movie
Pékin Central
1986 · Movie
New York, N.Y.
1986 · Movie
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
1985 · Movie
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
1985 · Movie
Raymond Depardon: Fermes familiales
1985 · Movie
The Declic Years
1984 · Movie
News Items
1983 · Movie
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983 · Movie
San Clemente
1981 · Movie
Reporters
1981 · Movie
Numéros zéro
1981 · Movie
Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon
1980 · Movie
Tchad 3
1976 · Movie
Tibesti Too
1976 · Movie
Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum
1975 · Movie
Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad
1970 · Movie
Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade
1970 · Movie
Jan Palach
1969 · Movie
Dégager l'écoute
Movie
Paris, Les inconnues du Saint-Lazare express
Movie