Isidore Isou, “Réseau centré M67” (1961), oil on canvas (73 x 60 cm) (© Adagp, Paris, image courtesy of Centre Pompidou) PARIS — Indefatigable theorist, poet, painter, filmmaker, playwright, ...
Inspired by Vincent’s correspondence, major modern and contemporary artists take up the themes he addressed and present their works to him as if they were letters. By responding to the late artist’s ...
In No. 10 of Poésie Nouvelle (First Trimester, 1960), Isidore Isou, refuting the writings of one of his friends from a recent period, whom he soberly calls X in order not to give him unmerited ...
The soundtrack of Discrepancy, read by the computer voice “Alex,” is adapted from the film Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951) by Isidore Isou. The film is Isou’s manifesto of cinéma discrepant. The ...
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 ...
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 ...