Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Aesthetic of Stage Directing, 1999); and a diploma in
theater and spectacle arts (thesis: The Pleasure in Contemporary
Theatre, 2003), he taught history of stage
and acting at the theater school L’Eponyme. A stage
director, he also wrote two plays. He directed mainly
shorts and edited one (1999 Histoire d’Août, Damien
Pottier) and worked as a fi rst assistant director on
another (2002 Un Monde meilleur, Igor Péjic).
Filmography
1997 Final Cut (short; also screenwriter)
1998 Fuite en Mai (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Chat Noir (video short; also screenwriter)
2000 Mahagonny (video)
2001 Sauf Conduite (short; also screenwriter)
2002 Yan Thomas cherche son Chat (documentary;
short)
Révolution(s) (experimental documentary;
short)
2003 Vertige (short)
Gare aux Artistes (documentary; short)
En attendant Septembre (short)
2005 La Carotte et le Bâton (documentary)
2009 Nos Désirs font Désordre (also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
ARRABAL, FERNANDO (Fernando Vicente Arrabal
Teran / August 11, 1932, Melilla, Spanish Morocco–)
A child prodigy, he was awarded a national prize for
“Gifted Children” at age ten. After completing his
studies at the University of Madrid, he went to France
in 1955. He met painter and illustrator Roland Topor
and future director Alejandro Jodorowsky and cofounded
with them a false artistic movement named
Panic after God Pan in 1962. Author of about 100
plays and fourteen novels, he is the most performed
contemporary playwright in the world. Pierre-Alain
Jolivet (1968 Le Grand Cérémonial / UK: Weird Weirdo
/ USA: The Big Ceremonial) and Alejandro Jodorowsky
(1968 Fando y Lis / UK: Fando and Lis: Tar Barbies / USA:
Fando and Lis, Mexico) were the fi rst directors to
fi lm his works. He played in Le Grand Cérémonial and
appeared in a handful of movies (1966 Qui êtes-vous,
Polly Magoo?, William Klein; 1968 Prologue / Arrabal,
short, Jacques Baratier; 1969 Piège, medium-length,
Jacques Baratier; 1979 Die Hamburger Krankheit / La
Maladie de Hambourg, Peter Fleischmann, West Germany
/ France). In 1963, he wrote two shorts for poet
Arroyo (Le Voleur de Rêves and Les Mécanismes de la
Mémoire). He made his debut as a director in 1971.
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Filmography
1971 Viva la muerte! / UK and USA: Long Live Death
(also original play, screenwriter, actor; France
/ Tunisia)
1973 J’irai comme un Cheval fou / USA: I Will Go Like
a Wild Horse / I Will Walk Like a Crazy
Horse (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1975 L’Arbre de Guernica / L’albero di Guernica / UK
and USA: The Guernica Tree (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
1982 L’Empereur du Pérou / L’Odyssée de la Pacifi c /
Odyssey of the Pacifi c / US TV: Treasure
Train (also co-screenwriter; France / Canada)
1983 Le Cimetière des Voitures / USA: The Automobile
Graveyard
ARRIETA, ADOLFO (August 28, 1942, Madrid,
Spain–)
A former painter, he directed experimental fi lms
marked by the infl uence of early cinematographical
works of Jean Cocteau.
Filmography
1966 El crimen de la pindola (short; also screenwriter;
Spain)
1967 L’Imitation de l’Ange (short; also screenwriter)
1970 Le Jouet criminel (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, cinematographer, production designer,
editor; France / Spain)
1972 Le Château de Pointilly (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, editor)
1975 Les Intrigues de Sylva Couski (also screenwriter,
dialogist; shot in 1973)
1976 Tam-Tam (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1978 Flammes (also screenwriter, dialogist, editor)
1983 Grenouilles (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
1991 Merlin (Spain)
Television Filmography
1989 Delirios de amor (TV miniseries; co-director
only)
ARRIGHI, CHRISTIAN-PAUL (1938, France–)
He directed a comedy starring Pierre Richard that
stayed on the shelves of the distributors for only
three years before being unsuccessfully released.
Then he totally faded into obscurity.
Filmography
1971 La Coqueluche (shot in 1968)