Isidore Isou
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Isidore Isou, born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement wh
Isou in his film Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951)
Venom and Eternity
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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.
Isidore Isou
…and Surrealism. An important figure in the mid-20th century avant-garde, he is remembered in the cinema world chiefly for his revolutionary 1951 film Traité de Bave et d'Éternité, while his political writings are seen as foreshadowing the May 1968 movements. Isidor Goldstein was born in 1925 to a prominent Jewish family in…
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