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"We support everything since the dawn of time that has struggled and still struggles" : introduction to lettrist cinema
- Title
- "We support everything since the dawn of time that has struggled and still struggles" : introduction to lettrist cinema / by Nicole Brenez ; translated from the French by Clodagh Kinsella ; [editors: Daniel Birnbaum & Kim West]
- Author
- Brenez, Nicole
- Publication
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.E96 B743 2014s | Off-site |
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- Description
- 71 pages : illustrations; 15 cm
- Summary
- In this pocket-sized book on the history of Lettrist Cinema, French historian and theorist Nicole Brenez elucidates the formal innovations of this unique art form that prefigured breakthroughs in film including the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema in the United States. Key figures and basic concepts such as the use of jarring dissonant and disassociated soundtracks, scratched and bleached celluloid and the place of Lettrist Cinema in avant-garde history are discussed and illustrated with black-and-white stills. Founded by Romanian-born French poet, film critic and artist Isidore Isou in Paris immediately after World War II, the Lettrist movement took its inspiration from Dada and Surrealism. The movement remains active to this day, having lost none of the aesthetic or ethical radicalism seeded by Isou in 1951 with his revolutionary film Venom and Eternity, which became the movement's visual manifesto, influencing such avant-garde filmmakers as Stan Brakage.
- Series Statement
- All the king's horses.
- Alternative Title
- Introduction to lettrist cinema.
- Subject
- Mouvement lettriste
- 1900-1999
- Experimental films > France
- Experimental films > History and criticism
- Surrealism in motion pictures
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
- Conceptual art
- Motion pictures > History > 20th century
- Surréalisme au cinéma
- Art conceptuel
- Cinéma > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Conceptual
- Experimental films
- Motion pictures
- France
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Lettrism, ten years before the Nouvelle Vague and Conceptual Art -- Major inventions in film: Syncinéma, the Infinitesimal, Chiselling -- Isidore Isou -- Maurice Lemaître -- Marc'O -- Gil J. Wolman -- Gabriel Pomerand -- Lettrism, polemic and invention of history -- From Lettrism to guerilla warfare: Jean-Louis Brau -- Under the influence: Ben Vautier, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, et. al. -- The fruits of Lettrism.
- ISBN
- 9783956791062
- 3956791061
- OCLC
- ocn910923409
- 910923409
- SCSB-1825415
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library