French Filmmaker, Anthropologist.

Stéphane BRETON is a Filmmaker, Anthropologist, Academic.

He is known for "Baccou" (2023, Short | Director).

Stéphane Breton was born in 1959 in Paris, France.
He lived several years in the mountains of New Guinea to do is job as an anthropologist. He found there barefoot people, armed with bows, whose language, humor, greed and disputes he has learned. From that he makes his first film, "Eux et moi" (2001), in which, watched by the ones he's watching, he endorses the role of the "good savage". See and be seen will become the thread of his next films shot in the streets of Paris ("Le monde extérieur", 2007), in Kirghizstan ("Un été silencieux", 2005), in New Mexico ("La maison vide", 2008), or in the Siberian Russia ("Quelques jours ensemble", 2012, and "Les forêts sombres", 2014).

The French filmmaker Stéphane Breton made waves in visual anthropology in 2001, exploding the pseudo-neutrality of ethnographical observation with his film "Eux et moi", shot with the Wodani people in New Guinea. Since this rebellious film, the trained philosopher has continually observed the specific way those in remote parts of the world experience the concept of time. His work is a profound reflection on the art of looking at others and, thus, at oneself.


FILMOGRAPHY | FILMOGRAPHIE (selection)
Filles du feu, en production
Chère humaine, 2015
Les Forêts sombres, 2014
Les Disparus, 2014
Quelques jours ensemble, 2014
La Montée au ciel, 2009
La Maison vide, 2008
Nuages apportant la nuit, 2007
Le Monde extérieur, 2007
Un été silencieux, 2005
Le Ciel dans un jardin, 2003
Eux et moi, 2001


FILMOGRAPHY | FILMOGRAPHIE (selection) :
Les Premiers Jours, 2023
Filles du feu, 2017
Chère humaine, 2015
Les Forêts sombres, 2014
Les Disparus, 2014
Quelques jours ensemble, 2014
La Montée au ciel, 2009
La Maison vide, 2008
Nuages apportant la nuit, 2007
Le Monde extérieur, 2007
Un été silencieux, 2005
Le Ciel dans un jardin, 2003
Eux et moi, 2001
Un Dieu au bord de la route, 1994


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
- www.stephane-breton.com/
- https://www.lesfilmsdici.fr/fr/searchfeatures?feature[6]=U3TDqXBoYW5lIEJyZXRvbg==&orderby=date_add
- https://cral.ehess.fr/membres/stephane-breton
- www.visionsdureel.ch/en/program/ateliers/stephane-breton/
- www.visionsdureel.ch/film/2017/le-ciel-dans-un-jardin/
- www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/program/person.html?pid=1b2423e3-3435-43c6-9de0-bb263431c4ae&eid=
- https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/lecieldansmonjardin
- https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/eux_et_moi_le_ciel_dans_un_jardin
Updated by Thierno DIA, 30 April 2025