Fabrice Aragno

"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I'll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson!" And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skilfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?

"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I'll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson!" And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skilfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?

The small regional hospitals of Vevey, Montreux, Aigle and Monthey are closing in favor of the new, larger, more adapted and more modern hospital in Rennaz. As the construction of the new hospital progresses, emergency physicians Eric and Frédérique tell us about their daily life in the face of illness and death.

From the courtyard of a building, Fabrice Aragno films nature reclaiming its rights while humans keep a lower profile.

Bernardo is a police officer from Tessin. Though scared of water, he's forced to investigate a series of disappearances on the edges of the Lake Maggiore, where women have been mysteriously vanishing for generations.

Some dust flies in the last lights of a film projection.

Some dust flies in the last lights of a film projection.

Some dust flies in the last lights of a film projection.

Shot entirely from a boat on a lake, this evocative film confronts the viewer resolutely with his or her sensitivity for the moment. Surrounded by sounds of animal life, both from the lake and the neighbouring forests, this film takes us through the seasons. Sounds of water, the wind and a human presence.

Godard still edits on analogue equipment. If he needs to insert an extra scene, he applies a double exposure. Aragno pushes this strategy to its limits and applies it to Godard’s original Le gai savoir (1969). The subject remains the same: a dialogue about the degradation of the French language under the capitalist system.

Shot entirely from a boat on a lake, this evocative film confronts the viewer resolutely with his or her sensitivity for the moment. Surrounded by sounds of animal life, both from the lake and the neighbouring forests, this film takes us through the seasons. Sounds of water, the wind and a human presence.

In 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012, the Costa Concordia, which had served as an allegorical platform for Godard, sank in front of the cameras of passengers and the world. In 2018, Paul Grivas Film Catastrophe, looks at images of the disaster to revisit the film factory

Jean-Luc Godard returns with a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film. Splicing together classic film clips and newsreel footage, often stretched, saturated and distorted almost beyond recognition, The Image Book interrogates our relationship with film, culture and global politics.

Jean-Luc Godard returns with a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film. Splicing together classic film clips and newsreel footage, often stretched, saturated and distorted almost beyond recognition, The Image Book interrogates our relationship with film, culture and global politics.

Captured on the fly in a cinema in Lausanne.

Antonionis L’Eclisse as a room installation. The camera, mounted on a model railroad, passes through a dark landscape of screens. The images, showing Monica Vitti, all sprawling into the room and on the surfaces, undermining illusionist effects in this “cinema hall”. Originally made for the Locarno Film Festival's Movie of My Life competition.

La Marmite is a project of artistic, cultural and civic action and a nomadic popular university of culture.” (Mathieu Menghini) In this context, Fabrice Aragno captured a multimedia installation composed of objects, images and sounds , for the Char Group, whose participants come from the Association Solidarité Femmes Genève.

Live montage, originally conceived for the Picasso.mania exhibition at the Grand Palais, with the collaboration of Diana Widmaier-Picasso. Originally shown as three-screen montage.

Fabrice Aragno's experimental short film.

“Tell me that story again." "Story? What story, honey?” This playful montage film focuses on the motif of the hat to take us on a short excursion through classic film history. At once, it is also the self-portrait of a cinephile and all that he keeps under his hat: a desire for love, passion, romance.

"It's a simple subject. A married woman and a single man meet. They love each other, fight, blows rain down. A dog wanders between town and countryside. Seasons pass. The man and woman get back together. The dog comes between them. The other is in one of them. One of them is in the other. And then there are three people. The ex-husband makes everything explode. A second film begins. The same as the first. And yet, not. From the human species, we move on to metaphor. It will end in barking. And a baby's cries." -JLG

David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys, get to know each other through admiration, rivalry and jealousy.

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exceptional singular styles and visions.

3D tests for Goodbye to Language

A documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio Télévision Suisse, the Cinémathèque suisse and Cinéma en tête by Freddy Buache’s partner Marie-Magdeleine Brumagne.

A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Jean-Luc Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minute sequences, and have 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from his work.

A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Jean-Luc Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minute sequences, and have 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from his work.

Claire, 15, wants to grow up very quickly, but she gets burned by being dragged into it. She finds herself isolated on the platform between childhood and adulthood.

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

When a love play transform a couple in two isolated and silences things.

William, an important politician chants the end of a political speech. He spreads a sparkling magic smile on the television camera when he throws vivas for his party, "Happy World"! In the limousine car which brings him back to the presidential palace, he no longer smiles at all. The next morning, grumpy, in his bathroom he discovers with horror a small smiling character on his razor.

One evening two couples take up a parlour game. Suddenly, the game is transformed: who is manipulating it? Has someone, a presence, entered the house? Suspense and anxiety over a little “silly game”, in which colour is interwoven with black and white.

On a road like any other, returning from a weekend, a couple separate. Patricia decides to take advantage of a lengthy delay at a border crossing for a brief moment of escape. A breath of fresh air. With this short graduation film, Aragno was immediately selected for the Cannes festival.

On a road like any other, returning from a weekend, a couple separate. Patricia decides to take advantage of a lengthy delay at a border crossing for a brief moment of escape. A breath of fresh air. With this short graduation film, Aragno was immediately selected for the Cannes festival.

A documentary film