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Traité de bave et d'éternité (Venom and Eternity) (1951) –
I. Isou
Self-referential debut of a new kind of film-making, one that
disconnects the audio and visual components (Discrepant Cinema) and violently
attacks the raw film stock. In three parts, variously a wide-ranging
philosophical tract about cinema, an alienated free love story, and a series of
letterist poems wherein the sound of unintelligible letters is the point. So
jammed full of ideas (and "boring" stock footage) that it makes you
alive to possibilities and nostalgic for 1951. (Obviously an influence on
Assayas' Irma Vep...but also on Japanese "rock" band Ruins?)
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