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Isidore Isou , nome de Ioan-Isidor Goldstein era um poeta romeno, crítico de cinema e artista visual, fundador do Letrismo, um movimento literário e artístico com inspiração no legado revolucionário de esquerda do dadaísmo e do surrealismo, porém se opondo ao controle ideológico de André Breton. Cria o movimento em 1942, quando tinha apenas dezesseis anos.

O estilo tornou-se moda e espalhou-se pela Europa. Tende ao Dadaísmo, se opondo à palavra e à significação, buscando o onomatopaico e o fonético, como os futuristas costumavam fazer. O movimento ganhou força e acabou migrando também para as artes visuais, onde obras experimentais com letras e pinturas se fundiram.

Os letristas acabaram por formar a base de movimentos de esquerda não stalinistas, como a Internacional Situacionista. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Janeiro 1925 – 28. Julho 2007
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Isidore Isou: Frases em inglês

“From the point of view of photography, I'll smite the picture with sun rays. I'll take old stock shots and scratch them; I'll claw at them so that unknown beauty sees the light of day. I shall sculpt flowers upon the film stock.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“The rigidity of forms impedes their transmission.
These words are so heavy that the flow fails to carry
them. Temperaments die before arriving at the goal
(firing blanks).
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one
wants to send with it.”

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Panic IV
Manifesto Of Letterist Poetry, 1942

“The Cinema is too rich; it is obese.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“There are so many films from which one leaves as stupid as one entered. I'd rather give you a migraine than nothing at all … I'd rather ruin your eyes than leave you indifferent.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. That's what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldn't Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio?”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“It is said that the public is stupid. That's why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Chapter II

“The evolution of art has nothing to do with the revolution of society.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“Your hissing and your booing make no impression on me, because from Victor Hugo's "Ernani" to Buñel's "The Age of Gold," Cannes Grand Prize winner, everything I have loved has always been hissed and booed at first. At the premiere of "The Age of Gold" the angry audience broke the theatre seats. What worse can happen to me, and how can that affect me? The seats do not belong to me.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Chapter II

“The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us.
All delirium is expansive.
All impulses escape stereotyping.”

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Panic I.
Manifesto Of Letterist Poetry, 1942

“I desire you, and all that comes with you. If I could only buy you and enjoy you, without having to go through all the formalities, without having to consider your personality et cetera … There is nothing as boring as human personality.”

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Venom and Eternity (1951), Chapter II