1934年,因为一个偶然的契机,经法国导演雷内·克莱尔的推荐,他拍摄了短片《公共事务》。该短片直到上世纪80年代才被人们发现。 片中所表现人物对话、肢体语言的喜剧风格与此后的布列松电影的冷静,演员的木偶式动作相去甚远。可见到卓别林的影子Bresson's first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory.