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

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

1977 · 102 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

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!"

Directed by Gérard Courant · Written by Gérard Courant

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John Lennon Self
Yoko Ono Self
Mouna Self
Marie-José Nat Self
Daniel Gélin Self
Marisa Mell Self
Alain Delon Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Melville Self (archive footage)
Janine Bazin Self
Claude Berri Self
André S. Labarthe Self
Christian Fouchet Self

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