Traité de Bave et d'Éternité | Isidore Isou book collage but also the social and

but also the social and cultural excitement that swirled around him

Jean Cocteau's poster promoted the 1952 release on the Champs-Elysées

- Jonas Mekas

George Macunias et Jackie Kennedy

A film with neither laughter nor mutterings

Traité de Bave et d'Éternité | Isidore Isou book collage but also the social andA film by Isidore Isou Isidore Isou arrived in Paris from Romania in 1945 where he founded the Lettriste movement and published many books. Letterism attempted to break down poetry into letters and syllables, and then all arts into their constituent parts, to build up new languages for each art form. LE TRAITE DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITE (On Venom and Eternity) was the first Lettrist film manifesto. Isou brought it uninvited to the Cannes Film Festival