Traité de bave et d'éternité

Venom and eternity

fotoIsidore Isou – F 1951 – 120 min.

Sc: Isidore Isou – C: Nat Saufer – E: Suzanne Cabon – P: Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin – With Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Danièle Delorme u.a.

35mm – French

 

 

 

 

A certain Daniel embodies all that Isou loves and hates about the cinema. Wandering around the streets of Paris like a proto-beatnik, he argues for a film that hurts our eyes. But his aim is also to 'sculpt flowers on the film stock'. Isou inspired many to rethink the parameters of cinema, to exploit the discrepancy between sound and image or to treat the film material as exactly that: substance to be manipulated in every possible way. Ironically, the film that wanted to destroy cinema has itself undergone restoration now and the pompous manifesto has become part of the canon. – IFF Rotterdam

 

 

 

Jean Isidore Isou, born I. Goldstein in 1925 in Botosani, Romania, died 2007 in Paris, was a writer and founder of the lettrist movement.