Venom and Eternity (1951) Isodore Isou [Part 10 of 12]

Isodore Isou's film, Traité de bave et d'éternité (translated to English as Venom and Eterntiy, or Treatise on Slime and Eternity) caused riots at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival, and is often deemed unwatchable. However, Isou's innovative techniques - scratching, bleaching, and painting directly on the film stock - proved to be influential to later filmmakers, including the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Isou was a founding member of the Lettrist movement, and this film is largely his Lettrist manifesto.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207801/
http://www.archive.org/details/venom_and_eternity
http://www.391.org/manifestos/1942isidoreisou_letterist.htm
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/004181.html
http://www.ubu.com/film/isou.html

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