L'Anticoncept
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L'Anticoncept, is a film by Lettrist Gil J. Wolman which was shown for the first time on February 11 1952 at the 'Avant-Garde 52' cinema club.
It consisted of blank illumination projected onto a weather balloon, accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack. The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952—when the Letterists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month, they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only. The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Letterist journal Ion (1952; reprinted Jean-Paul Rocher, 1999), and later reissued in a separate edition augmented with associated texts (Editions Allia, 1994). Ion also included the text of Guy Debord's film Howls for Sade, which was dedicated to Wolman and featured his voice in its own soundtrack.
French description
Ce film, composé de deux images, l'une blanche et l'autre noire, est projeté sur un ballon-sonde placé devant les rideaux qui n'ont pas dévoilé pas la toile traditionnelle. Constitué de courtes réflexions sur la vie, l'amour et l'art, on y entend des poésies sonores devenues célèbres et des textes syncopés faussement chantés.
