Preceeded by short: Jan Palach (Ian Palach)(Raymond Depardon, France, 1969). Traveling for Gamma to Prague at the news ofthe self-immolation of Jan Palach in Wanceslas Square, Depardon filmed the minuteof silence and the ceremonial tribute to the young Czech. Some years later here-edited the footage for this film. (12 mins, Color) Tibesti Too: Between cinema and still photography, this film looks atthe desert and its inhabitants with a sensitive eye. "Tibesti is the MiddleEast, but it is also a very rural world. I found that it corresponded in manyways to my childhood environment°.They are proud to be living off the land. Italso makes them slightly paranoid°.That is how they have managed to survive. Inthem I find the stuff I should have started photographing in my family°.Thatpeasant world which has vanished, those photographs which are impossible to taketoday, I find them elsewhere." (R.D.) (40 mins, B&W) Les Années declic:Depardon presents himself-photographs takenover the past twenty years; excerpts from his films; and behind it all, hisimage-for consideration in this powerful, lonely, and gripping autobiographicaltour. Depardon's examination of the issues and questions in photography andjournalism permeates his work, prompting Cahiers du cinéma's LouisMarcorelles to write of Depardon's "auteur complex. The camera is his alterego, a mirror along the road as Stendhal said of the novel, and a mirror in theCocteau tradition, Narcissus's perfect tool." (65 mins, B&W, PermissionInterama)