This Thursday 27th of June
Filmhuis Cavia - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Starts 20.30
With introduction by Pip Chodorov
Traite de Brave et D'Eternité (On Venom and Eternity)
(FR: Isidore Isou, 1951)
120 min. FR gesproken, ENG OT - 35mm
“A restorated version of Isidore Isou's legendary film from 1951 Traite de
Brave et D'Eternité. The film constitutes the Letterist manifesto of film. One
of the most radical innovators of the art of cinema (physically attacking the
film material), the writer Isou inspired the works of Guy Debord, Stan Brakhage
and many others.
Cannes jury member Jean Cocteau proclaimed in 1951 that perhaps in 50 years'
time, the radical aesthetics of this film might feel more acceptable. Poet,
film critic and visual artist Isou’s first and only stab at filmmaking caused a
major scandal. After five minutes of Letterist poetry in the pitch dark, the
film kicks off by rejecting any appreciation of the audience.
A certain Daniel embodies all that Isou loves and hates about the cinema.
Wandering around the streets of Paris like a proto-beatnik, he argues for a
film that hurts our eyes. But his aim is also to 'sculpt flowers on the film
stock'.
Isou inspired many to rethink the parameters of cinema, to exploit the
discrepancy between sound and image or to treat the film material as exactly
that: substance to be manipulated in every possible way. Ironically, the film
that wanted to destroy cinema has itself undergone restoration now and the
pompous manifesto has become part of the canon.”
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