Venom and Eternity

Venom and Eternity

123 mins | Drama | April 20, 1951

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.

Venom and Eternity

123 mins | Drama | April 20, 1951

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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Films M.-G. Guillemin
Original title Traité de bave et d'éternité
Directors Isidore Isou
Writers Isidore Isou

Cast

Isidore Isou

as Daniel

Jean Cocteau

as Self

Marcel Achard

as Self

Blaise Cendrars

as Self

Colette Marchand

as (voice)

Daniel Gélin

as Self

André Maurois

as Self

Armand Salacrou

as Self

Albert J. LeGros

as Daniel (voice)

Bernard Blin

as Narrator (voice)

Serge

as (voice)

Marc'o

as

Maurice

as (voice)

François Dufrêne

as (voice)