Venom and Eternity

Venom and Eternity (1952)

Traité de bave et d'éternité

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.

Date of release
1952-01-25
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (18)
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Isidore Isou

Casting

Interesting facts

Venom and Eternity is a 1951 French avant-garde film by Isidore Isou that grew out of the Lettrist movement in Paris. It created a scandal at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

Isou began filming Venom and Eternity in 1950. To secure an audience for the film, he set about finding famous figures who would agree to appear in it. He called Gaston Gallimard, who had previously published his work, and got him to agree. Filmmaker Jean Cocteau and dramatist Armand Salacrou also appear in the film.

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