Novel
French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval.
Writer
Archive Footage
Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.
Self
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Writer
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Director
Blaise Cendrars' AUTOUR DE LA ROUE (1923), a behind-the-scenes short documenting the production.
Assistant Director
La película se abre con un espectacular choque de trenes montado a partir de cortes muy rápidos, tan revolucionario en su tiempo como la llegada del tren a la estación filmada por Lumière en 1895. El ferroviario Sisif salva a Norma del choque y la educa como si fuera hija suya. Pero tanto él como su hijo Elie se enamoran de ella. Entonces Sisif decide casarla con un hombre rico, pero ella está enamorada de Elie. Son claras las referencias a la tragedia griega (Sisif es Sísifo y acabará ciego a causa del deseo incestuoso). La metáfora central de la película es la rueda: la rueda del destino, la rueda del deseo y la rueda de la misma película... (FILMAFFINITY)
