ABSTRACT
Between 1967 and 1969, the lettrist vanguard maintains a café-cinema , combining experimental projections and artistic interventions inspired by the group's previous practices. In the light of this experience, the aim is to examine the lettrists’ positions in relation to 1968’s events from three steps. Firstly, a mapping of cafe-cinema activities and manifestos in their continuities with remaining lettrist practices. In a second moment, we emphasize the conceptual debate of such continuities based on the ideas of collage, everyday life and youth. Finally, we analyze the film Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse (1968), by Maurice Lemaître, identifying a self-centered construction that takes rebellions as the consolidation of the theories announced by Isidore Isou in the book Traité d’économie nucléaire (1949).
Lettrist Vanguard; May 1968; Experimental Cinema