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LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? (HAS THE FILM ALREADY STARTED?)<\/strong><\/span>
\n by Maurice Lema\u00eetre<\/strong><\/span>
\n Monday July 8, 7pm<\/span>
\n video transfer (w\/ english subtitles)<\/span>
\n 35mm, hand-colored and b\/w, 59 minutes<\/span>
\n suggested donation $6<\/span><\/em>
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image copyright Maurice Lemaitre
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Le film est d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9?,<\/em> by Maurice Lema\u00eetre,\u00a0is the second expression of Lettrist cinema, started a few months after Isidoe Isou’s 1951 On Venom and Eternity.\u00a0<\/em>Lema\u00eetre, who was 25 at the time he made the film, had just spent several months assisting Isou on On Venom<\/em>… . In\u00a0Le film est d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9?<\/em>,\u00a0Lema\u00eetre uses similar techniques as the ones used in\u00a0Venom<\/em>\u00a0that would become distinctive of the Lettrist cinema aesthetic, such as the\u00a0chiseling<\/em>\u00a0of the visual component through physical interventions on the film strip and the\u00a0discrepancy\u00a0<\/em>between image and sound. One fundamental difference is the dominance of the performative element in Lema\u00eetre’s film.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The artist conceived the occasion of a screening of the film as an art performance and described it in his screenplay as:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith\u2019s\u00a0Intolerance<\/em>\u009d on this screen. The start of the film will be announced at 8.30 but no one will enter before 9.30. During these 60 minutes of waiting, people on the first floor of the building will shake out very dusty carpets, and someone else will throw ice water on the heads of those spectators waiting for the screening. Some actors who have infiltrated the crowd will insult other actors on the first floor. At this moment only, and to stop the beginning of a scandal, the doors of the theatre will open\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the premiere on December 7th 1951 at the theatre Le Cluny, drapes covered the screen, the audience was invited onto the stage, actors impersonating spectators were talking to the screen, shouting at each other and throwing things around, and the night was ended by the police, who made several arrests. Apparently, this ending was already included in the original script.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMaurice Lemaitre is a French artist, writer, filmmaker. He was born in 1926.<\/span>
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LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? (HAS THE FILM ALREADY STARTED?) by Maurice Lema\u00eetre Monday July 8, 7pm video transfer (w\/ english subtitles) 35mm, hand-colored and b\/w, 59 minutes suggested donation $6 image copyright Maurice Lemaitre Le film est d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9?, by Maurice Lema\u00eetre,\u00a0is the second expression of Lettrist cinema, started a few months after Isidoe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11332","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11351,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11332\/revisions\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}