Format VOD
Original format 16mm
Year 1965-1991
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Maurice Lemaître
Subtitles English
Running time 120 min
Films
AU-DELÀ DU DÉCLIC (1965-78) 10'
UN NAVET (1975-77) 31'
FILMS IMAGINAIRES (1985) 30'
FIN DE TOURNAGE (1985-90) 27'
L'AYANT-DROIT (1991) 22'
Description
"A major figure of the Lettrist movement, Maurice Lemaître revolutionized cinema in 1951 with Le Film est déjà commencé ? and invented a new form of spectacle: the "Syncinéma." His numerous film works, from the 1960s to the present day, place him among the most important avant-garde filmmakers of his generation."
— Christian Lebrat
"Lemaître invents interactive cinema, extending it to the extreme by distributing manuals to spectators before entering the theater, inviting them to actively participate in the screening, projecting the film directly onto their bodies. The whole becomes a true installation, with multiplied screens, multiple projections, and performance, Lemaître using his body, his voice, and those of others. Thus, between 1974 and 1985, he conceived a series of Films imaginaires, consisting of title cards inviting spectators to create their own film from these few lines, but making the film a tribute to writing, transformed by projection, taking on an "other dimension."
— Cécile Giraud