Venom and Eternity

Venom and Eternity

1951
2h 3min

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.

Venom and Eternity

Storyline

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
    Released
    20 April 1951
    Runtime
    2h 3min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    French
    Production
    Films M.-G. Guillemin
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