Alice Fargier

Director

Alice Fargier is Franco-Swiss. She became interested in directing at a very young age and staged short plays by Jean Tardieu: Oswald et Zénaïde (Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique), Finissez vos phrases! (Château de Chamarande), Nocturnes (Théâtre du Chaudron).

She then collaborated with the director Srinath Samarasinghe on the writing of his feature film script Un nuage dans un verre d'eau. Alice Fargier also worked as an assistant director on feature films by Asian filmmakers: Hong Sang Soo (Night and Day) and Tsai Ming Liang (Faces). She then joined La Maison de la Radio and began creating sound for France Culture: Alma voit les sons, Nasim, ou le désir en mouvement, Esprit libre, portrait d'une génération de cinéastes. She has also made several experimental films: Alice dans ma tête (Prix vidéoformes 2013), Entre les cours de Jean-Henri, in homage to the filmmaker Jean-Henri Roger, and Kâbus, shot during a recent artist residency in Turkey.

Le Mur et l'Eau, his first short documentary, has been selected and awarded in many international festivals, as well as nominated in the Best Short Film category at the Swiss Film Prize 2016.

 

Le Temps d'une nuit, 2020
Retour au pays des merveilles, 2018

Kâbus, 2017
Compétition européenne Un festival, c’est top court ! France
Compétition nationale Festival Ciné-poème, France
Compétition internationale Short Waves, Pologne
Compétition Festival international d’Art vidéo de Casablanca, Maroc
Compétition Internationale FIFF Fribourg, Suisse
 
Le mur et l’eau, 2014
NOMINATION MEILLEUR COURT-MÉTRAGE PRIX DU CINÉMA SUISSE 2016
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY, DOC LA, LOS ANGELES, USA
GRAND PRIX DU GRAND JURY 11ème Festival Européen d’Éducation
GRAND PRIX DU JURY Festival International Partie(s) de Campagne
PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY, Festival International Nancy Lorraine
Compétition internationale Visions du  réel, Suisse
Compétition internationale, DOC NYC, USA
Compétition internationale, MIFF Melbourne, Australie
Compétition internationale Karlovy Vary, République Tchèque
Compétition internationale Traces de Vie, France
Sélection Officielle IDFA, Pays-bas
Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France

Alice dans ma tête, 2013
Prix vidéoformes 2013

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The Visit - The Palais de la Découverte

26/04/2023 à 00:00

France - 2019 - 18 minutes - Original French version - English subtitles, AD - That day, Eugène and his best friend Maxence visit the Palais de la découverte for the first time. At the planetarium, they fall into a deep sleep and fall through the looking glass.

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The visite (Collection) - French Trailer

13/07/2023

Trailer of La Visite
La Visite (The Visit) is a collection of short films in which ten writers-directors with a singular vision offer us ten encounters with people with mental disabilities in ten major cultural venues. Each film tackles a range of subjects, both big and small, that resonate with these places.

      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      

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