Raymonde Carasco

Born: 1939-06-19

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)


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Cinématon

as N°32
Released: 1978-12-20

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...

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The Dead Tree

as la mère de Jaime
Released: 1987-01-01

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance...

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Un film (autoportrait)

as Self
Released: 1984-05-23

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and...

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Life Lesson

as uncredited
Released: 1995-04-11

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris...

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Le Contrebandier des profondeurs

as uncredited
Released: 2013-07-09

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