Raymonde Carasco

Biography

Director, author, and professor of philosophy and film studies Raymonde Carasco (1939-2009) left behind a remarkable body of work that remains little known today. Her attempts at combining film and anthropology, which she eventually gave up, arose from an interest in Sergei Eisenstein, about whose approach to editing she had written a dissertation under the guidance of Roland Barthes. Inspired by Antonin Artaud’s book Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara (1947, published in English in 1976 as The Peyote Dance), she traveled to Mexico, where she spent more than years with this group of Native Americans. Together with her husband, the cinematographer and film editor Régis Hebraud, she filmed an entire series of ethnographic films: Tarahumaras 78 (1979), Tarahumaras 79 – Tutuguri (1980), Los Pintos (1982), Tarahumaras 85 – Los Pascoleros (1996), Artaud et les Tarahumaras (1996), Ciguri 98 – The Peyote Dance (1998), Ciguri 99 – Le dernier Chaman (1999) and La Fêlure du temps (2004)

Directed

1. Gradiva: Esquisse I (1978) — Director
2. Tarahumaras 78 (1979) — Director
3. Los Pascoleros - Tarahumaras 85 (1996) — Director
4. Rupture (1989) — Director
5. Tutuguri: Tarahumaras 79 (1980) — Director
6. Los Pintos - Tarahumaras 82 (1982) — Director
7. Yumari - Tarahumaras 84 (1985) — Director
8. Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl (1998) — Director
9. Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 2: Childhood (2003) — Director
10. Artaud and the Tarahumaras (1996) — Director
11. Portrait d'Erasmo Palma - Tarahumaras 87 (2011) — Director
12. Los Matachines - Tarahumaras 87 (2011) — Director
13. Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman (1999) — Director
14. Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 3: Initiation - Gloria (2003) — Director
15. Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 5: The Farewell (2003) — Director
16. Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 1: Before - The Apaches (2003) — Director
17. Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 4: Raspador - The Sueño (2003) — Director
18. Divisadero 77 (Gradiva - Western) (1977) — Director
19. Julien (1983) — Director
20. Ciguri – Tarahamuras 96 (1996) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cinématon (1978) — N°32
2. Life Lesson (1995)
3. The Dead Tree (1987) — la mère de Jaime
4. Un film (autoportrait) (1984) — Self
5. Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl (1998) — Narrator
6. Le Cinématon invisible de Raymonde Carasco (2015) — Herself
7. Le Contrebandier des profondeurs (2013)
8. Cinématon IV (1978) — N°32
9. Cinématon n°32 : Raymonde Carasco (1978) — self