“I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization which calls itself the film.”
- Isou

founded lettrism

uncoupled image and sound

figurative

abstract

lettrism uses nonexistent language and letters, sound or visual, to create art

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ISIDORE ISOU

a Romanian immigrant