Isidore Isou: Traite de Bave d'Eternite DVD, 1951

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Film Description

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-Elysees. 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.

Film Information

Director - Isidore Isou

Produced - 1951

Main Language - French

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film

DVD Details

Certificate:	TBC	Publisher:	Re:voir	Region:	0
Length:	127 mins	Cat No:	REVOIR73
Format:	DVD B&W

DVD Extras

First authorized edition of the original version and trailer, mastered in HD from the 35mm internegative restored by the French National Film Archives
Soundtrack remastered by Frederic Acquaviva
52-page booklet by Frederique Devaux about the film and its history.