Audio-visual? Carmen Pardo

Lettrism was an artistic movement founded in 1945 in Paris by the Rumanian poet Isidore Isou. The latter and his main follower, Maurice Lemaître, with the incidental complicity of Gil J. Wolman, Guy Debord, François Dufrêne, Marc’O and others laid the foundations for lettrist cinema in the early 1950s: the discrepancy between sound and image; the deconstructive engraving of arbitrary images (films that they had come across, laboratory rejects, etc.); syncinema or screenings conceived as events like happenings; infinitesimal cinema (that emphasises the imaginary world and wipes out the usual elements in what we normally understand by cinema); poly-automatism or the unpredictable laws of chance…* To mark the season held in the MACBA, “Lettrist cinema, between discrepancy and rebellion,” the author analyses the relationship between looking and listening in cinema.