Venom and Eternity

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.

Release Date

April 20, 1951

Status

Released

Original Title

Traité de bave et d'éternité

Runtime

2h 3min

Budget

Revenue

Language

French

Production Companies

Films M.-G. Guillemin