Jean-Paul Fargier Movies

Theoretical film essay dealing with the main ideologies of mainstream commercial cinema.

This film enables us to understand the spiritual journey, the artistic quest and the technological experimentation of a pioneer of video art, Bill...

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden....

Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie, and many other things.

For the "Cinéma, de notre temps" collection, Jean-Paul Fargier sends his friend filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet a letter written to the second...

Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40...

This bitter and ironic satire illustrates the universal problems with youth and their revolt against the bourgeois establishment. The man becomes a...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

A docudrama examining diverse variations on the theme of French filmmakers' political engagement or not alongside the working class with, as a...

In 1990, the Louvre invited the French philosopher Jacques Derrida to create a visual and philosophical product based on the materials of the...

Every Tuesday, Mallarmé received guests, and people flocked to his house to hear him. Renoir, Gide, Claudel, Henri de Régnier,...

The story of the creation, disappearance and reappearance of one of the most mysterious paintings in Western art.

Radioscopy of Armand Robin who, during the Algerian war, listened to the false words of radio propaganda and hosted poetry programmes against the...

Humorous portrait of the great specialist of video art in France. From one of his lectures only the silences remain. It's up to us to imagine what he...