Maurice Lemaître (; born Moïse Maurice Bismuth; 23 April 1926 – 2 July 2018) was a French Lettrist painter (known for his use of Hypergraphy), filmmaker, writer and poet. Lemaître was

Isidore Isou Isidore Isou (; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which ...

's right-hand man for nearly half a century, but began to distancing himself from

Lettrism Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and cultur ...

in the 2000s. Lemaître's paintings, films, photographs and sculptures have been shown in more than twenty personal exhibits in Europe and The United States. The

Pompidou Center The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

has acquired some of his paintings, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, as well as the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, where in 1968, a large retrospective of his pictorial and film works took place. Poems by Lemaître were set to music by Michel Faleze and were sung by Marie-Thérèse Richol-Müller.

Publications

* ''Le film est déjà commencé ? Séance de cinéma'', préface by

, éditions André Bonne, collection Pour un cinéma ailleurs - Encyclopédie du Cinéma, Paris, 1952''Lettres de Guy Debord à Gil J Wolman'', édition privée hors commerce, 2017; nouvelle édition, 2020, p. 69. * ''Qu'est-ce que le lettrisme ?'', by Maurice Lemaître, Éditions Fischbacher, 1953 * ''Les Idées politiques du Mouvement lettriste'', Éditions Lettristes * ''Avant toute nouvelle interview'', Éditions Lettristes * ''Maurice Lemaître, Le Syncinéma, la Ciné-Hypergraphie et le Film Imaginaire'', Éditions Paris Expérimental. * ''Œuvres Poétiques et Musicales Lettristes'', Éditions Lettristes * ''50 Ans de Peinture Lettriste, Hypergraphique, Imaginaire'', Éditions Le Point Couleur * ''Le Mariaje du Don et de la Volga'', Collection Acquaviva / Marie-Laure Dagoit Éditions Derrière la salle de bains, Rouen, 2009 * ''Wanted'', Éditions AcquAvivA, Paris, 2009 * ''Sachez lire Lemaître'', Éditions AcquAvivA, Paris, 2009 * ''Roman Futur'', Éditions AcquAvivA, Paris, 2010 * ''Photos imaginaires médicales (partiellement) néo-nazies'', Éditions AcquAvivA, Berlin, 2013 * ''Galipettes'', Éditions AcquAvivA, Berlin, 2014

Filmography

Director * 1951: ''Le film est déjà commencé ?'' * 1975: ''Six films infinitésimaux et supertemporels'' (short film) * 1976: ''Un navet '' (short film) * 1978: ''The Song of Rio Jim'' * 2001: ''La Voie des dieux'' * 2002: ''Nos stars'' Writer * 1951: ''Le film est déjà commencé ?'' by Maurice Lemaître * 1973: ''La Rose de fer'' by Jean Rollin Actor * 1952: ''

Traité de bave et d'éternité ''Venom and Eternity'' () is a 1951 French avant-garde film by Isidore Isou that grew out of the Lettrist movement in Paris. It created a scandal at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Description ''Venom and Eternity'' is arranged in a three-part s ...

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* 1955: '' Around the World with Orson Welles'' épisode ''

Saint-Germain-des-Prés Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the nor ...

'' * 1970: ''La Vampire nue'' by Jean Rollin * 2001: ''La Voie des dieux'' by Maurice Lemaître * 2004: ''Le Fantôme d'

Henri Langlois Henri Langlois (; 13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often ...

'', documentaire by Jacques Richard * 2007: ''La Nuit des horloges'' by Jean Rollin * 2012: ''Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film'', documentairy by Pip Chodorov

References

External links

http://www.mauricelemaitre.org/

https://web.archive.org/web/20081205012117/http://www.lettrisme-international.com/

Histoire du Lettrisme

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