Jorge Arriagada
Jorge Arriagada is a Chilean film composer. He is perhaps best known for his long-term collaboration with director Raúl Ruiz. He has also worked with directors Patricio Guzman, Barbet Schroeder and Olivier Assayas.
Biography
Jorge Arriagada was born on August 20, 1943 in Santiago. He studied composition and orchestral conduction at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago. He then obtained a scholarship from the French government that enabled him to study expressionism with Max Deutsch, who was Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg's friend and student. He also studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and orchestral conduction with Pierre Boulez. In 1972, the Guggenheim Foundation in New York awarded him a fellowship for his contribution in the field of electronic music.Arriagada has been living in France since 1966, working with experienced as well as promising directors while composing the scores of 44 of Raúl Ruiz's films. Over the years he has explored many different genres, including classical, contemporary and folk music as well as jazz.
He has been a jury in several film festivals, including San Sebastian, São Paulo, Valencia, among others.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Notes | - |
| 1977 | Colloque de chiens | Raúl Ruiz | Best Short Film Award Cesar 1977. Selection Cannes Film Festival 1978 | - |
| 1978 | Les Divisions de la nature | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1978 | The Suspended Vocation | Raúl Ruiz | Grand Prix San Remo Film Festival 1978 | |
| 1979 | L'Hypothèse du tableau volé | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1979 | - |
| 1979 | Of Great Events and Ordinary People | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1980 | Zig-Zag - le jeu de l'oie | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1981 | The Territory | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1982 | Le Péril rampant | Alberto Yaccelini | - | |
| 1982 | On Top of the Whale | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1982 | Moi, l'autre | João Botelho | - | |
| 1983 | Bérénice | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Avignon Festival 1983 | |
| 1983 | Three Crowns of the Sailor | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1983 | |
| 1984 | The Terrible Lovers | Danièle Dubroux and Stavros Kaplanidis | - | |
| 1984 | City of Pirates | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Venice Film Festival 1983 | |
| 1984 | Point de fuite | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1984 | Paris vu par... vingt ans après | Philippe Venault | - | - |
| 1984 | Notre mariage | Valeria Sarmiento | Golden Seashell Best Film San Sebastian International Film Festival 1984 | |
| 1984 | Ave Maria | Jacques Richard | - | |
| 1985 | Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au coeur | Melvil Poupaud | - | |
| 1985 | Manoel's Destinies | RaúlRuiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1985 | |
| 1985 | The Insomniac on the Bridge | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1985 | Treasure Island | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1991 | - |
| 1986 | Life is a Dream | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1986 | Richard III | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1986 | |
| 1986 | Dans un miroir | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1986 | Hijos de la guerra fría | Gonzalo Justiniano | - | |
| 1986 | 15 août | Nicole Garcia | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1986 | |
| 1987 | Brise-glace | Jean Rouche and Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1987 | Le Professeur Taranne | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1987 | The Miracle | Jean-Pierre Mocky | - | |
| 1987 | Buisson ardent | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 1988 | Les Mendiants | Benoît Jacquot | - | |
| 1988 | Terre Sacrée | Emilio Pacull | - | |
| 1989 | Winter's Child | Olivier Assayas | - | |
| 1989 | Blancs cassés | Philippe Venault | - | |
| 1989 | Les Deux Fragonard | Philippe Le Guay | - | - |
| 1990 | Amelia Lopes O'Neill | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 1990 | Le procès du roi | João Mário Grilo | - | |
| 1990 | Un jeu d'enfant | Pascal Kané | - | - |
| 1990 | La Désenchantée | Benoît Jacquot | - | |
| 1991 | Langlois Monumental | Jacques Richard | - | |
| 1991 | Blanval | Michel Mees | - | |
| 1991 | Sushi Sushi | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 1991 | Le Ciel de Paris | Michel Béna | - | |
| 1992 | The End of the World | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1992 | Urgence d'aimer | Philippe Le Guay | - | |
| 1992 | Das Tripas Coração | Joaquim Pinto | - | |
| 1992 | Terra fria | António Campos | - | |
| 1993 | Dark at Noon | Raúl Ruiz | Won - Sitges Film Festival Award for Best Original Score. Selection Cannes Film Festival 1992 | - |
| 1993 | Rhésus Roméo | Philippe Le Guay | - | |
| 1993 | It's All True | Bill Khrone and Myron Meisel | - | |
| 1994 | Los Náufragos | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1994 | Exterior Night | Mark Rappaport | - | |
| 1995 | Le fabuleux destin de Madame Petlet | Camille de Casabianca | - | |
| 1995 | L'Année Juliette | Philippe Le Guay | - | |
| 1995 | L'Éducatrice | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 1995 | Elle | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 1995 | Three Lives and Only One Death | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1996 | |
| 1995 | Pili, Prince des rues | Bertrand Van Effenterre | - | |
| 1996 | Transatlantique | Christine Laurent | - | |
| 1996 | L'Éducatrice | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 1996 | Os Olhos da Ásia | João Mário Grilo | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1993 | |
| 1996 | Mi último hombre | Tatiana Gaviola | - | |
| 1996 | Turres Eburnea | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1996 | Transatlantique | Christine Laurent | - | |
| 1997 | El Ché | Maurice Dugowson | - | |
| 1997 | Genealogies of a Crime | Raúl Ruiz | Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize Berlin Film Festival 1997 | |
| 1997 | Le Monde d'Angelo | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 1998 | Aventureros del fin del mundo | Miguel Latín | - | |
| 1998 | L'inconnu de Strasbourg | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 1998 | Shattered Image | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 1998 | El Entusiasmo | Ricardo Larraín | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1998 | |
| 1999 | Quelque chose | Melvil Poupaud | - | |
| 1999 | La Isla de Robinson Crusoe | Patricio Guzmán | - | |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 1999 | |
| 2000 | 30 ans | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 2000 | Love Torn in a Dream | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2000 | Our Lady of the Assassins | Barbet Schroeder | Italian Senate Award Venice Film Festival 2000 | - |
| 2000 | Comedy of Innocence | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Venice Film Festival 2000 | |
| 2001 | Savage Souls | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2001 | |
| 2002 | Madrid | Patricio Guzmán | - | |
| 2002 | l'Astronome et l'Indien | Carmen Castillo | - | |
| 2002 | Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2003 | That Day | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2003 | |
| 2003 | A Place Among the Living | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2004 | Operation Hollywood | Emilio Pacull | - | |
| 2004 | Tout pour l'oseille | Bertrand Van Effenterre | - | |
| 2004 | Salvador Allende | Patricio Guzmán | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2004 | |
| 2004 | Days in the Country | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2005 | The Lost Domain | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2005 | Horcón, al sur de ninguna parte | Rodrigo Gonçalves | - | |
| 2005 | Juanita de Tanger | Farida Benlyazid | - | |
| 2006 | Klimt | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Rotterdam Film Festival 2006 | |
| 2006 | Vocation Cinéaste | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 2007 | Terror's Advocate | Barbet Schroeder | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2007 | |
| 2007 | La Recta Provincia | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2007 | Crosse | Liova Jedlicki | - | |
| 2007 | Nucingen House | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2008 | Secretos | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 2008 | Mr President | Emilio Pacull | - | |
| 2008 | ' | Barbet Schroeder | Selection Venice Film Festival 2008 | |
| 2008 | Litoral | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2008 | Nucingen House | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2009 | Nova: The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies | Nick de Pencier | - | |
| 2009 | El Pasaporte amarillo | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2009 | History of a Chair | Pablo Salvador N.G. | - | |
| 2009 | Medea's Ark | Pablo Salvador N.G | - | |
| 2010 | Je ne vous oublierai jamais | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 2010 | Il Était une fois King-Kong | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 2010 | Mysteries of Lisbon | Raúl Ruiz | ICS Award for Best Original Score.Silver Seashell Award Best Director San Sebastian International Film Festival 2010 | - |
| 2010 | La Maleta | Raúl Ruiz | - | |
| 2010 | The Women on the 6th Floor | Philippe Le Guay | Audience Award Colcoa French Film Festival 2010 | |
| 2011 | Ballet Aquatique | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 2011 | Diario de mi Residencia en Chile | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 2011 | Cornelia frente al espejo | Daniel Rosenfeld | Selection Rotterdam Film Festival 2012 | |
| 2011 | Alguien ha visto a Lupita | Gonzalo Justiniano | - | |
| 2012 | Chez Frida Kalo | Xavier Villetard | - | |
| 2012 | Ferlinghetti le dernier des Beatniks | Laurent Perrin | - | |
| 2012 | Night Across the Street | Raúl Ruiz | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2012 | - |
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington | Valeria Sarmiento | Selection Venice Film Festival 2012 | |
| 2013 | Cycling with Moliere | Philippe Le Guay | Nominated - César Award for Best Music Written for a Film. Selection Tribeca Festival 2013 | - |
| 2013 | Diary of a Residence in Chile | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 2013 | L'Harmonie familiale | Camille de Casabianca | - | |
| 2014 | Welcome Home Emma-Rose | Miriam Heard | - | |
| 2015 | Al centro de la Tierra | Daniel Rosenfeld | - | |
| 2015 | Floride | Philippe Le Guay | Selection Locarno Film Festival 2015 | |
| 2015 | Le Saphir de Saint-Louis | José Luis Guerín | - | |
| 2016 | Sélection Oficielle | Jacques Richard | - | |
| 2016 | Tierra Yerma | Miriam Heard | - | |
| 2016 | ' | Alejandra Rojo | - | - |
| 2016 | Jean Dupuy, une Biographie à 2 Têtes | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 2016 | Mademoiselle Clara | Daniel Rosenfeld | - | |
| 2017 | Casa di Angeli | Valeria Sarmiento | - | |
| 2017 | La Telenovela Errante | Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento | Selection Locarno Film Festival 2017 | |
| 2017 | Le Venerable W | Barbet Schroeder | Selection Cannes Film Festival 2017 | |
| 2018 | Il Etait une fois le Progrés | Pascal Kané | - | |
| 2018 | O Caderno Negro | armiento | Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2018 | |
| 2019 | Entierro | Maura Morales | Selection Bologna Film Festival 2019 | |
| 2019 | The Tango of the Widower | Raoul Ruiz-Valeria Sarmiento | Selection Berlin Film Festival 2020 |
Discography
Three original soundtracks composed by Arriagada can be found on the CD compilation Les Musiques de Jorge Arriagada pour les films de Philippe Le Guay, released by Canadian label Disques Cinémusique, in 2013 : Alceste à Bicyclette, Les Femmes du 6e étage et Les Deux Fragonard. French and English liner notes. .The same label also released the same year Arriagada's complete original soundtrack from Les Lignes de Wellington.