Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 06, 1942
Place of Birth
Villefranche-sur-Saône
Credits
56 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Mon arbre
Director
12 Days
Director
Les Habitants
Director
The 8th Floor
Director
Un Moment Si Doux
himself
Journal de France
The Joy of Maths
Director
La rouge et la noire
Self
La France de Raymond Depardon
Director
Modern Life
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Donner la parole
To Each His Own Cinema
Director
Quoi de neuf au Garet?
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Profiles Farmers: Daily Life
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial
Director
Untouched by the West
Narrator (voice)
Chasseurs et Chamans
Director
1974, une partie de campagne
Director
Profiles Farmers: The Approach
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Muriel Leferle
Director
Paris
Director
Bolivia
Director
Amour
Director
Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?
Director
Malraux
Director
Lumière & Company
Director
Concerning Nice
Director
Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)
Director
Caught in the Acts
Director
Lest We Forget
Director
Incognito
Self
Contacts
Director
Captive of the Desert
Director
Une histoire très simple
Director
Emergencies
Director
Pékin Central
Director of Photography
New York, N.Y.
Narrator (voice)
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
Director
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
Director
Raymond Depardon: Fermes familiales
The Declic Years
News Items
Director
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
himself
San Clemente
Director
Reporters
Director
Numéros zéro
Director
Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon
Director
Tchad 3
Director
Tibesti Too
Producer