Venom and Eternity ( Traité de bave et d'éternité )

Venom and Eternity (DVD) (*)

$31.99

Original Title: Traité de bave et d'éternité
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
123

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1951 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Isidore Isou

Written By:
Isidore Isou

Actors:
Isidore Isou ..... Daniel
Jean-Louis Barrault ..... Himself
Blanchette Brunoy ..... Elle-même
Blaise Cendrars ..... Himself
Jean Cocteau ..... Himself
Danièle Delorme ..... Herself
Edouard Dermithe ..... Himself
Daniel Gélin ..... Himself
André Maurois ..... Himself
Armand Salacrou ..... Himself
Rodica Valeanu ..... Danie
Albert J. LeGros ..... Narrato
Bernard Blin ..... (voice
Serge
Colette Marchand

Synopsis:

Isidore Isou arrived in Paris from Romania in 1945 where he founded the Lettriste movement and published many books. Letterism attempted to break down poetry into letters and syllables, and then all arts into their constituent parts, to build up new languages for each art form. LE TRAITE DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITE (On Venom and Eternity) was the first Lettrist film manifesto. Isou brought it uninvited to the Cannes Film Festival (1951) where it won the audience prize for the avant-garde. Jean Cocteau's poster promoted the 1952 release on the Champs-Elysées. The film is Isou's "revolt against cinema": the sound and the picture are purposefully unrelated, and the images are destroyed by bleach and scratched. The film is a landmark work that prefigured the letterist and situationist cinema to come and influenced many experimental filmmakers.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 03 February, 2018.

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