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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"

Top Cast

  • John Lennon

    John Lennon

    Self

  • Yoko Ono

    Yoko Ono

    Self

  • Mouna

    Mouna

    Self

  • Marie-José Nat

    Marie-José Nat

    Self

  • Daniel Gélin

    Daniel Gélin

    Self

  • Marisa Mell

    Marisa Mell

    Self

  • Alain Delon

    Alain Delon

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jean-Pierre Melville

    Jean-Pierre Melville

    Self (archive footage)

  • Janine Bazin

    Janine Bazin

    Self

Overview

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"

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