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.

Repleto de sons de animais do lago e das florestas vizinhas, o espectador viaja pelas estações do ano com este filme. Sons de água, vento e presença humana.

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.

Repleto de sons de animais do lago e das florestas vizinhas, o espectador viaja pelas estações do ano com este filme. Sons de água, vento e presença humana.

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

Você ainda se lembra de como, há muito tempo, treinamos nossos pensamentos? Na maioria das vezes, partimos de um sonho... Nos perguntamos como, na escuridão total, cores de tal intensidade poderiam emergir dentro de nós. Em voz baixa e suave, dizendo coisas maravilhosas, surpreendentes, profundas e precisas. Imagem e palavras como um sonho ruim escrito em uma noite tempestuosa. Sob os olhos ocidentais. Os paraísos perdidos. A guerra está aqui. Narrado pelo próprio Jean-Luc Godard, o longa mostra o mundo árabe e ocidental com imagens de diversas origens —filmes antigos, fotografias, imagens de arquivo e, por meio de uma linguagem que remete aos filmes de terror, retrata a violência da atualidade.

Você ainda se lembra de como, há muito tempo, treinamos nossos pensamentos? Na maioria das vezes, partimos de um sonho... Nos perguntamos como, na escuridão total, cores de tal intensidade poderiam emergir dentro de nós. Em voz baixa e suave, dizendo coisas maravilhosas, surpreendentes, profundas e precisas. Imagem e palavras como um sonho ruim escrito em uma noite tempestuosa. Sob os olhos ocidentais. Os paraísos perdidos. A guerra está aqui. Narrado pelo próprio Jean-Luc Godard, o longa mostra o mundo árabe e ocidental com imagens de diversas origens —filmes antigos, fotografias, imagens de arquivo e, por meio de uma linguagem que remete aos filmes de terror, retrata a violência da atualidade.

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.

Um homem e uma mulher dividem a intimidade em uma casa, onde mora também um cachorro. Ela é casada, mas não há qualquer informação sobre sua vida fora daquele local. Os dois conversam sobre a questão da linguagem sob o ponto de vista filosófico, enquanto que o cão a tudo observa.

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

Treze cineastas europeus pensam Sarajevo, e o que a cidade representou para a história europeia dos últimos cem anos, desde o início da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Todos eles realizadores proeminentes, de diferentes origens e gerações, oferecem estilos e visões excepcionalmente singulares sobre a cidade, o velho continente, os fantasmas do passado e o seu reflexo no presente.

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.

Uma sinfonia em três movimentos. Um navio no mediterrâneo e alguns conversas, em diversas línguas, entre passageiros, quase todos em férias. Um velho criminoso de guerra (alemão, francês ou americano?) acompanhado de sua neta. Um jovem filósofo francês. Um representante da polícia de Moscou. Uma cantora americana. Um velho policial francês. Uma ex-funcionária da ONU. Um agente aposentado. Um embaixador palestino. No fundo, discutem a falência das ideologias de esquerda no início de século 21.

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