Movies: Isidore Isou

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...

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This film is composed of images collected then scratched, colored, scratched, etc. which have no direct or indirect relation with the sound column. As in almost all Lettrist films, sound comes first over image. 16mm / color / sound...

Debord directed his first film, "Hurlements en faveur de Sade" in 1952 with the voices of Michele Bernstein and Gil Holman. The film has no actual images; instead, it shows bright white when there is speaking and black when there is not. Long silence...