Venom and Eternity
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
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Venom and Eternity
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
- Recommendations
Status
Released
Release Date
Apr 20, 1951
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Drama
User Score
67%
Original Title
Traité de bave et d'éternité
Production Companies
Films M.-G. Guillemin
Director
Isidore Isou
Description
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
