{"id":722,"date":"2012-09-05T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=722"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:12:27","slug":"on-venom-and-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2012\/09\/05\/on-venom-and-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Venom and Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?attachment_id=887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-887\" title=\"Isou: Traite de Bave et d'Eternite\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Isou-Traite-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Isou-Traite-7.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Isou-Traite-7-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Friday 19 October 2012, at 6:30pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Venom and Eternity (Trait\u00e9 de bave et d\u2019\u00e9ternit\u00e9)<\/strong><br \/>Isidore Isou | France 1951 | 120 min (new print courtesy of Re:Voir) <br \/>The first and only film by the founder of the French Lettrist movement begins with a warning: \u2018Dear spectators, you are about to see a discrepant film. No refunds will be given.\u2019 Advocating for the rupture of language and photography, Isou expects the spectator to \u2018leave the cinema blind, his ears crushed, both torn asunder by the disjunction of word and image\u2019. At the 1951 Cannes Festival, where <em>Trait\u00e9<\/em> received its first pubic screening, it won the admiration of Guy Debord and Jean Cocteau, who wondered if it would take 50 years before its radical aesthetics could be understood. The Lettrists believed the development of cinema had been stalled by the domination of the studio system. In order for a new cinema to emerge, it had first to be destroyed \u2013 symbolically and physically \u2013 by bleaching and scratching the images, and by replacing soundtracks with abrasive concrete poetry and enraged tirades. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 19 October 2012, at 6:30pm, NFT3 On Venom and Eternity (Trait\u00e9 de bave et d\u2019\u00e9ternit\u00e9)Isidore Isou | France 1951 | 120 min (new print courtesy of Re:Voir) The first and only film by the founder of the French Lettrist movement begins with a warning: \u2018Dear spectators, you are about to see a discrepant film. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[120,150,151,121],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-weekend","tag-120","tag-isou","tag-jean-isidore-isou","tag-lff-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}