Raymond Depardon

Known for DirectingBorn 1942-07-06 (age 83)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tchad 3

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon

Incognito

Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum

Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade

Modern Life

Profils paysans : l'approche

The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

12 Days

Tibesti Too

Profils paysans : le quotidien

Untouched by the West

Quoi de neuf au Garet?

Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon

Journal de France

Lest We Forget

Contacts

Une histoire très simple

Caught in the Acts

Reporters

The Declic Years

L'Âge d'or de la pub

News Items

1974, une partie de campagne

San Clemente

To Each His Own Cinema

Amour

Numéros zéro

Urgences

New York, N.Y.

Les Habitants

Lumière & Company

The 8th Floor

Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

Captive of the Desert

Muriel Leferle

Jan Palach

Concerning Nice

Paris

Donner la parole

Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)

Pékin Central

Mon arbre

Un Moment Si Doux

La rouge et la noire

The Joy of Maths

La France de Raymond Depardon