From: Esperanza Collado (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 16:53:22 PDT
Hi Jonathan,
Im learning French in order to be able to read Lettrists! I may have some
loose excerpts I have translated myself from a Spanish publication about
Lettrist cinema by Eugeni Bonet and Eduardo Escoffet. It features several
original texts by the Lettrists.
There are a few texts by Weibel in Film as Film and, if I remember well, in
X-screen. I could send you copies of all this and other loose stuff I got
from Anthology if you like (could give it to you in London too).
Best,
e.
2009/3/19 Pip Chodorov <email suppressed>
> Jonathan,
>
> we have published Isidore Isou's film VENOM AND ETERNITY (full two-hour
> version restored by French Film Archives) with English subtitles, with a
> bilingual booklet about Isou and the film. That's on our website
> http://re-voir.com. I can also send you an interview I made with Maurice
> Lemaitre, subtitled in English. But most of the original lettrist texts have
> not been translated. We did make English subtitled 16mm prints of several
> Lemaitre films: Has the Feature Started Yet, An Evening at the Movies/To
> Make a Film, The Uprising of Youth...
>
> -Pip Chodorov
>
>
>
> At 14:38 -0400 19/03/09, Jonathan Walley wrote:
>
>> Over a year ago, there was a thread on Frameworks called "Conceptual
>> Movies," about works identified as "films" that existed only as sets of
>> instructions, declarations, or ideas. That is, "films" that were unrealized
>> or, more to the point, never meant to be realized (i.e. in the film medium).
>> Several frameworkers mentioned the Lettrists, and referenced some texts in
>> French. Can anyone recommend good readings on these works, in English?
>>
>
>
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