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Traité de bave et d’éternité

Venom and Eternity
Film still from TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D

Tue 05.07.
18:00

  • Director

    Isidore Isou

  • France / 1951
    120 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    French

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • 18.00: Lectured by Bernhard Groß (Free admission) 20.00: Film screening

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s relationship with the postwar neo-avantgardes is exceedingly tense. This becomes evident when after Pasolini’s murder in 1975, Edoardo Sanguineti, one of their leading exponents in Italy, proclaims: “Finally we’ve shaken it off, this confusionist remnant of the 1950s.” This tension is all the more remarkable, as the neo-avantgardes appear quite critical of capitalism and understand their creative work as decidedly political. Focusing on the work of Isidore Isou who, just as Pasolini, turns from literature to filmmaking in the 1950s, film scholar Bernhard Groß will explore the intricacies of this intellectual ‘enmity’ in his lecture “Der Geifer des Autors. Filmende Schriftsteller, Lettristen und ihre Manifeste.” Afterwards, TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ÉTERNITÉ will be screened. (Hannes Wesselkämper)

The Cinepoetics Lectures are organized by the research center of the same name at Freie Universität Berlin.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media