Michel Fano

Michel Fano Trailers

The Year 01 Trailer

French musician, composer, writer, filmmaker, and sound designer. He developed the concept of continuum sonore to describe the potential for a film's soundtrack to interact with its visual content. During the early 1950s, he was part of a generation of composers associated with the Darmstadt School, and was a lifelong friend of Pierre Boulez. From 1962 until 1975, he regularly collaborated with Alain Robbe-Grillet on cinematic projects, creating partitions sonores (or "sound-scores") for five of Robbe-Grillet's films.

Most Popular Michel Fano Trailers

Total trailers found: 41

Chronicle of a Summer Trailer (1961)

20 October 1961

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Wings and Things Trailer (1973)

14 June 1973

Award-winning film essay exploring the model airplane phenomenon from the clumsy plastic glider of a child to the sophisticated radio-controlled sea plane of a middle-aged devotee.

A Man and a Woman Trailer (1966)

27 May 1966

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

A Couple Trailer (1960)

08 January 1960

After testing their love, Pierre and Anne decide to leave each other.

Le Bel Âge Trailer (1960)

10 February 1960

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.

Far from Vietnam Trailer (1967)

18 October 1967

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

Playing with Fire Trailer (1975)

19 February 1975

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

The French Game Trailer (1960)

26 December 1960

Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.

SEE Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

View up close some of the smaller inhabitants of the Red Sea off the coast of Sudan - a world filled with strange, fascinating, and often comic creatures.

The Year 01 Trailer (1973)

22 February 1973

The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity.

The Man Who Lies Trailer (1968)

27 March 1968

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure Trailer (1974)

07 March 1974

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts.

The Nun Trailer (1967)

26 July 1967

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

The Chimerical Staircase Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

A César award winning animation where the steps of a staircase change shape and size as someone tries to use them.

Experimental Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

We briefly visit a vast array of various flying objects.

Trans-Europ-Express Trailer (1966)

31 December 1966

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

Eden and After Trailer (1970)

20 April 1970

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin.

The Immortal One Trailer (1963)

27 March 1963

A melancholy man meets a stunning, mysterious woman while he is traveling, and discovers she may or may not be involved in a prostitution ring.

Don't Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

The lyric passage of a Monarch butterfly, beginning with its birth, through its delicate metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly and on its journey from country to city.

Hotspot Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Descend into the crater of the Nyiragongo Volcano (in Zaire, Africa) to witness the terrifying yet spellbinding explosion of molten lava at its very source.

Olivier Messiaen and the Birds Trailer (1973)

22 April 1973

"A renowned composer and organist, Olivier Messiaen was also a great teacher. Michel Fano, who took his composition class at the Paris Conservatory, films some of the privileged moments of his teaching.

Undercurrents Trailer (1973)

03 January 1973

In the clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the undulant beauty and violent potential of underwater life are carefully balanced within the reef community.

Flyaway Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

A concise and poetic story of a man whose model airplane vanishes over the sea.

N. Took the Dice Trailer (1972)

11 January 1972

N Took the Dice is essentially a reworking of Eden and After made possible by the roll of a dice (scenes from the 1970 film were combined with outtakes and additional footage in an aleatory way).

A Game for Six Lovers Trailer (1960)

20 January 1960

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age.

The Claw and the Tooth Trailer (1976)

06 June 1976

Without narration, this wildlife documentary explores the behavior of African animals by day and by night, and is especially vivid in its depiction of the hunting behavior of large predators.

Wall Engravings Trailer (1968)

07 February 1968

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart.

Circle of Passions Trailer (1983)

06 July 1983

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.

Colter's Hell Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

In winter at Yellowstone National Park, the boiling water of the geysers meets 40-below-zero to create a seam of frozen ice crystals.

Sea Creatures Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Depicts the larger sea creatures inhabiting the Red Sea. An imaginative sound track accompanies hermit crabs, jellyfish, parrot fish, sea urchins, crown-of-thorns starfish, sea cucumbers, clown fish, and Manta Rays - to mention only a few - as they parade before the camera in stunning color and movement.

Lamiel Trailer (1967)

30 August 1967

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé.

Qui donc a rêvé? Trailer (1965)

31 December 1965

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

The Picasso Look Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

On the 1967 huge Picasso exhibition in Paris, celebrating the 85 anniversary of the painter.

The Human Pyramid Trailer (1961)

18 April 1961

Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung Trailer (1967)

27 December 1967

20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war criminal, Carl Emmanuel Jung.

Meetings in the Forest Trailer (1972)

04 June 1972

The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense forest governed by the monstrous Akos, not far from a mysterious castle inhabited by the noble Adrien, who will become the willing sacrificial victim of an incredible sylvan entity.

One More Time Trailer (1968)

07 March 1968

A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows Trailer (1964)

27 August 1964

Filmed in Paris in 1964, this documentary short follows two fifteen-year-old girls from the city’s 16th arrondissement as they move through leisure, conversation, and social encounters.

The Territory of Others Trailer (1970)

22 April 1970

This colorful wildlife documentary follows the flight birds and expresses the need for conservation and sanctuaries.

Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.

A vingt jours de la vie Trailer (1970)

25 April 1970