Maurice Lemaître: Imaginary Films ( AU-DELÀ DU DÉCLIC / UN NAVET / FILMS IMAGINAIRES / FIN DE TOURNAGE / L'AYANT-DROIT )

Maurice Lemaître: Imaginary Films (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: AU-DELÀ DU DÉCLIC / UN NAVET / FILMS IMAGINAIRES / FIN DE TOURNAGE / L'AYANT-DROIT
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Maurice Lemaître

Written By:
Maurice Lemaître

Synopsis:

5 short films by Maurice Lemaître. A major figure in the lettrist movement, Maurice Lemai?tre revolutionized cinema in 1951 with 'Le Film est de?ja? commence? ?' (Has the Feature Started Yet?) and invented a new form of performance: 'Syncinema.' His many cinematic works, made between the 1960s and the present day, confirm his position as one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers of his generation. -CHRISTIAN LEBRAT. Lemai?tre invented interactive cinema, then pushed it to its limits by distributing instruction manuals as the audience entered the theater, inviting them to take an active part in the screening; and projecting the film directly onto their bodies. The whole operation became a veritable installation, with multiple screens, projections, and performances; Lemai?tre used his own body and voice, as well as those of his collaborators, as part of the experience. Between 1974 and 1985, he cre- ated a series of Films Imaginaires (Imaginary Films), which consisted of printed cards inviting spectators to create their own film by following the minimal instruc- tions typed onto the cards; the resulting film(s) would become an homage to the written word which, trans- formed by projection, would take on a whole 'other dimension.' -CE?CILE GIRAUD. Films Imaginaires (Imaginary Films) consists of texts from a range of works that had already been published here and there, and that were included in the revised edition of my collected Cinematic Works. I filmed these texts and converted them into inter-titles for projection. The conversion of these texts to frames of film, and their subsequent projection, transforms these 'films' into an even more progressive type of cinematic creation. -MAURICE LEMAI?TRE

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