The godfather of cinematic chaos turns 90 — and he's still gleefully unhinged.
Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
Direction
Bougard captures Arrabal's gleeful anarchy without taming it.
Production
Intimate celebration format suits the Panic Movement's anti-grandeur ethos.
Director
Jonathan Bougard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Panic Movement (1962) fused surrealism, theatre of cruelty, and deliberate audience antagonism — Arrabal, Jodorowsky and Topor once staged a 'happening' where they released 100 frogs into a theatre.
Arrabal's 1967 film 'Viva la muerte' remains banned in several countries; this documentary marks rare footage of him discussing it without legal intervention.
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