Raymonde Carasco Movies

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic...

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

An intimate exploration of Raymonde Carasco’s father.

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras...

La fêlure du temps (2000-2003) is the last of the works of Raymonde Carasco focused on the Tarahumara. This epic divided into five chapters...

This film was shot in summer 1979. The repeated ritual of Tutuguri that Tranquilino the saweame sang and danced six times in a short, strictly...

This film was shot during Easter 1985. It shows the preparation and staging of the Passion in the village of Norogachic, Mexico. The initiation rites...

Second chapter of La fêlure du temps. "As a child, I loved to dance. I remember a time we lived in happiness"

Rites of winter, rites of peyote. A creative documentary based on texts by Antonin Artaud read by Jean Rouch, and the words of the last...

This film chronicles a meeting: that of the Tarahumara Indians and a camera that looks at the people that are etymologically called "foot runners." ...

Fifth chapter of La fêlure du temps. "Yes, the dead, I see him very well. He tells me of the necessity to do that ritual. We have to end this,...

Third chapter of La fêlure du temps. "It's enough that Gloria tells you the first time: if you want to work that way, do it. The sueño...

Fourth chapter of La fêlure du temps. "We work the sueño, the pure sueño: first, see, see the disease, how the disease is...