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 …

Directed

1. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
2. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
3. 12 Days (2017) — Director
4. The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (2004) — Director
5. Modern Life (2008) — Director
6. 1974, une partie de campagne (2002) — Director
7. Journal de France (2012) — Director
8. Urgences (1988) — Director
9. Caught in the Acts (1994) — Director
10. Les Habitants (2016) — Director
11. Profils paysans : l'approche (2001) — Director
12. News Items (1983) — Director
13. Profils paysans : le quotidien (2005) — Director
14. New York, N.Y. (1986) — Director
15. Captive of the Desert (1990) — Director
16. Paris (1998) — Director
17. Reporters (1981) — Director
18. San Clemente (1981) — Director
19. Concerning Nice (1995) — Director
20. Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa (1985) — Director
21. Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon (1980) — Director
22. Jan Palach (1969) — Director
23. Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ? (1996) — Director
24. Untouched by the West (2003) — Director
25. Muriel Leferle (1999) — Director
26. Donner la parole (2008) — Director
27. Lest We Forget (1991) — Director
28. The Declic Years (1984) — Director
29. Contacts (1990) — Director
30. Tibesti Too (1976) — Director
31. Quoi de neuf au Garet? (2005) — Director
32. Numéros zéro (1981) — Director
33. Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés) (1994) — Director
34. The 8th Floor (2014) — Director
35. Amour (1997) — Director
36. Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade (1970) — Director
37. Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum (1975) — Director
38. Tchad 3 (1976) — Director
39. Une histoire très simple (1989) — Director
40. Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad (1970) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Modern Life (2008) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2. Journal de France (2012)
3. Profils paysans : l'approche (2001) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
4. New York, N.Y. (1986) — Narrator (voice)
5. Profils paysans : le quotidien (2005) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
6. L'Âge d'or de la pub (2023) — Self (archive footage)
7. Untouched by the West (2003) — Narrator (voice)
8. Donner la parole (2008)
9. The Declic Years (1984)
10. Quoi de neuf au Garet? (2005) — Self (voice) (uncredited)
11. Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon (1983) — himself
12. Incognito (1990) — Self
13. Un Moment Si Doux (2013) — himself
14. La rouge et la noire (2011) — Self
15. Raymond Depardon: Fermes familiales (1985)