We Support Everything Since the Dawn of Time That Has Struggled and Still Struggles: Introduction to Lettrist Cinema
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We Support Everything Since the Dawn of Time That Has Struggled and Still Struggles: Introduction to Lettrist Cinema
In this pocket-sized book on the history of Lettrist Cinema, F rench historian and theorist N icole Brenez elucidates the formal innovations of this unique art form that prefigured breakthroughs in film including the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema in the United States. Key figures and basic concepts such as the use of jarring dissonant and disassociated soundtracks, scratched and bleached celluloid and the place of Lettrist Cinema in avant-garde history are discussed and illustrated with black-and-white stills. F ounded by Romanian-born F rench poet, film critic and artist Isidore Isou in Paris immediately after World War II, the Lettrist movement took its inspiration from Dada and Surrealism. The movement remains active to this day, having lost none of the aesthetic or ethical radicalism seeded by Isou in 1951 with his revolutionary film Venom and Eternity, which became the movement s visual manifesto, influencing such avant-garde filmmakers as Stan Brakage.