Étienne Carton de Grammont

History

French cinematographer.

Movies

Two in the Wave
Director of Photography
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival footage, interviews, and film excerpts — written and narrated by former Cahiers du Cinéma editor Antoine de Baecque.
Names Live Nowhere
Cinematography
A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are explored.
Bonjour Monsieur Doisneau ou Le photographe arrosé
Cinematography
Documentary on one of 20th century greatest photographers, the French Robert Doisneau.
Les miettes du purgatoire
Cinematography
Alain and Yves Dognin, 54 year old twins, live with their parents in a dilapidated apartment that seems to have stopped in time. Alain paints brightly colored canvases while Yves listens to music. Their day is punctuated by mass, medical care and meals. Episode of "Strip-tease", a Franco-Belgian documentary TV series.
Les Immémoriaux
Cinematography
The film is a free adaptation of a travelogue by Victor Segalen. In 1905, the writer described in “Les immémoriaux” the passage from the Maori world to another evangelized world. Marc Giannesine in an article published in Le Monde in 1987 wrote: “But beware, the adventure according to Segalen is a total change of life, of skin. For him, it is not a question of superficially aping the customs of the Maori, but of stripping his own culture in mind to better feel that of others. It is exoticism in the purest sense of the term, as Baudelaire understood it, an art of correspondences between the most diverse things. Henri Hiro, emblematic figure in the Pacific, of the defense of his culture, goes back in time for us by following the text of Segalen.
The Wind
Director of Photography
Two Malian teenagers, Bah and Batrou, from different backgrounds, meet at secondary school. Bah is the descendent of a great tribal chieftain. Batrous father, a provincial military governor, represents the new ruling power. The two teenagers are part of a generation that rejects the established order and challenges the society in which they live.
Work
Cinematography
A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory
The Madwoman of Toujane
First Assistant Camera
This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail there.