Fabrice Aragno

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

With everything they've got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.

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

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.

Dynamic Wisdom is a housing collective that exists since 2017. It brings together 16 people from Nigeria and 4 people born in Switzerland who have pooled their energy to respond to an emergency situation: sleeping on the street.

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

With everything they've got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.

With everything they've got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.

With everything they've got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.

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.

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.

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 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.

Dynamic Wisdom is a housing collective that exists since 2017. It brings together 16 people from Nigeria and 4 people born in Switzerland who have pooled their energy to respond to an emergency situation: sleeping on the street.

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.

A final meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker preparing Scénario, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by a love of cinema. Consists of Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” and Scenarios combined together for TV.

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.

Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.

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.

A micro-macroscopic journey through Jean-Luc Godard's Rolle studio, a place of light and shadow and a tree of thoughts: the inner forest of cinema.

A micro-macroscopic journey through Jean-Luc Godard's Rolle studio, a place of light and shadow and a tree of thoughts: the inner forest of cinema.

A micro-macroscopic journey through Jean-Luc Godard's Rolle studio, a place of light and shadow and a tree of thoughts: the inner forest of cinema.

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

In October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his idea for Scénario, a 6 chapter feature film combining still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing.

A documentary film

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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.

3D tests for Goodbye to Language

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.

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.

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

Fabrice Aragno's experimental short film.

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.

Captured on the fly in a cinema in Lausanne.

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.

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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