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