Biography
Maurice Lemaître (born April 23rd 1926 in Paris) is an artist, writer and French poet. He is known to be one of the main figures of lettrisme, a movement started in the 1950s. Lemaître was educated at the School of Arts and Crafts and Public Works. After taking part in the Liberation of Paris, he began his philosophy degree at the Sorbonne. In 1948, he began his career as a journalist and wrote for the newspaper of the libertarian movement. A year later, he met Isidore Isou and immediately bec...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Imag-en cada verso
2019
as self (archive sound)
A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION.
Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français
2019
as Lui-même
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up a...
The Night of the Clocks
2007
A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 't...
Portrait of Maurice Lemaître
2004
as himself
A founding member of the Lettrist movement with Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître describes here the genesis of the movement, his friendship with Isou, t...
Ganeden
2003
Director
Ganeden, in Hebrew, signifies the «Garden of Pleasures", paradise, Eden. Our images of an imaginary journey, in this enchanting place, this place, acc...
Nos stars
2002
Director
A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of...
Le petit dieu
2002
Director
An invitation to travel, one of the main themes of Lemaître, and a genuine manifestation of film Lettrism
L'Ayant-Droit
1991
Director
Extract of the sound of the film: Sir, Following your first letter and according to your indications, the viewing of the press conference of General...
Fin de tournage
1990
Director
Excerpt from the film's soundtrack: - Hélène Richol: Why do you call your film "Fin de tournage"? - Maurice Lemaître: First of all because most of m...
L'Amour, qu'est-ce?
1989
Director
1976-1989, 24 min
Films Imaginaires
1985
Director
The "Films Imaginaires" are made up of only texts, filmed in cardboard boxes for the screen, of various works already shown to the public at the time,...
To Screen on the Sky, At Night…
1979
Director
“The film you are about to see now will not be projected onto the sky, as Maurice Lemaître’s film, UN SOIR AU CINÉMA, was in part in the 1960s during ...
Love Reinvented
1979
Director
For a long time now, we have been seeing outrageous attempts at tackling the 'woman problem' (and the 'man problem') by pretentious and old-fashioned ...
Erich Von Stroheim
1979
Director
Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.
Des scènes d'amour très réalistes avec force détails et gros plans
1978
Director
1978, 15 min 30
Un film porno
1978
Director
The Song of Rio Jim
1978
Director
What is film? The spectator will be able to imagine all possible Westerns and anti-Westerns.
Nada!, le dernier film
1978
Director
The Great Train of History
1978
Director
Tous derrière Suzanne, jeune, dure et pure!
1978
Director
Un navet
1977
Director
50 bons films
1977
Director
50 good films
Montage
1977
Director
Six films infinitésimaux et supertemporels
1975
Director
Image
1974
Director
The Iron Rose
1973
Dialogue
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out,...
The Nude Vampire
1970
as Georges Radamante
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being ...
Positif-Negatif, notre film
1970
Director
Un film à faire
1970
Director
Un programme d'avant-garde
1970
Director
Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After
1970
Director, Writer
This film is a supertemporal oeuvre. The support of the audience's participations is constitued by an image, which has varied several times during the...
L'Écrevisse mathématique
1969
Director
Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse Mai 68
1969
Director
Maurice Lemaître had the ambition to make a really creative film about the revolt of May 68. For this, he did not renounce any of his filmic audaciti...
Une Oeuvre
1968
Director
This film, first titled La poubelle du labo (The Lab Trashcan), and after L'Enfer du cinéma (Cinema's Hell), has been projected for the very first tim...
Chutes
1968
Director
Chantal D., Star
1968
Director
1968, 26 min
Pellicule
1968
Director
Moteur!
1967
Director
Le film de demain
1967
Director
Au-delà du déclic
1965
Director
Un soir au cinéma, suivi de Pour faire un film
1963
Director
Venom and Eternity
1952
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov...
Has the Film Already Started?
1951
Director
“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith’s Into...
Vies de MB, V: Tunisie, Tunisie
N/A
Director
Une copie mutilée
N/A
Director
Un film commercial et militant
N/A
Director