Les Temps Morts | Dead Times

René Laloux | 1964
Drawings by Roland Topor
Narrator (voice) Roland Dubillard 
English subtitles



What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.

A shot of a planet, footage of Asian children playing in the streets with guns, then footage of war. It switches to illustrations, black and white pen & ink drawings the camera moves over, people in various states of undress and dismemberment. A man rides a dead horse, the horse's front and hind legs being carried by two other men, following a man with a castle for hair. Back to actual footage, snorkelers fishing, riflery, bullfighting, men and women in the act of stabbing and shooting, a woman in lingerie inhabiting a house made out of suitcases that each jail men's decapitated heads... photographs of people being guillotined, hung, beheaded, electrocuted.

ANNIE LE BRUN

"Apostrophes" - 04/10/1988
Bernard PIVOT accueille Annie LE BRUN pour son livre "Appel d'air" dans lequel elle défend avec virulence la poésie. Sur le plateau, elle critique la poésie actuelle trop réaliste et qui, depuis 20 ans, marque la fin du rêve et de l'utopie. Pour elle, la poésie est une façon d'être et la haine de celle-ci est synonyme de haine de l'homme. Bernard PIVOT lit un extrait de cet ouvrage puis présente des livres sur le surréalisme.

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IRA COHEN

Ira Cohen - (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Cohen

“I’d like to say something more perfect about Vali, that would actually shed light on her beauty and how

important she is to me. She’s really a great artist, and she’s always followed her own star, which is to me

the most important thing. Especially when you’re talking about authenticity, a word which doesn’t have a

lot of play in the art world. For me Vali is both a great artist and a great person, absolutely unique. Anyone

who has ever seen her or knows her can tell that. But she herself is her greatest work of art. I never really

saw her when she was drawing, although I have a tiny doodle she made on an envelope and gave me

which I put in a little frame.”

— Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen - (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011)
poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker.

Vali and Ira Cohen, photo by Carol Beckwith 1979

“Perhaps the Armenian carving elephants

on a human hair between heartbeats

can tell you better why you were born

at midday during a storm


or what the Moroccan is thinking

in the asylum

Perhaps he can tell you why the best

sailors can’t swim or how to freeze


two perfect tears on a Chinese face

Perhaps the fox holding an egg

in her mouth can tell you better

how red conquered the rain

or how the blue line curves


around the nipple & I am sure

that the hound knows better


the meaning of the maidenhair fern

or the secrets of lavender under pillows

But only the harpooned whale

can tell you as he turns, rising


to the sun


how much he hates your blue green eyes,

how much a whale’s heart weighs


when it is finally undone.

”

— Ira Cohen, poem for Vali Myers

Allen Ginsberg, Life Mask

“Part of Ira Cohen’s Bandaged Poets series, which first began when Ira met his second wife Caroline

Gosselin in Amsterdam in the late 1970s. Gosselin had been making ‘life masks’ and Ira began

photographing the process of bandaging all the noted poets that crossed their path. Cohen had originally

published Ginsberg in Gnaoua in 1964. Cohen would later wryly comment that Allen Ginsberg made sure

New York City wasn’t big enough for two bearded Jewish poets”

Ira Cohen - Bom Shankar, an ascetic of the Aghori sect

IRA COHEN part 1


IRA COHEN part 2

William S Burroughs in Cohen’s New York loft, also part of his Mylar Chamber series.
Cohen met Burroughs in Tangier, Morocco in the early 1960s,
where he published Burroughs in his Gnaoua magazine.

From The Mylar Chamber series, late 60s

Jimi Hendrix by photographer Ira Cohen

Vali and Ching Ho Cheng , New York City, 1970. Photo by Ira Cohen

Jimi Hendrix by photographer Ira Cohen

Joyce Mansour – Phallus et momies (1969)

J'ai suivi la route parallèle

Derrière le tulle des ténèbres

Entre les cuisses de mes aïeux

Darde la langue hébraïque

L'art commence où le désir finit

Mate et sale

Sans haleine

Face d'argent sur champs de gueules

J'ai crevé dans ma peau

Ainsi qu'une enflure bleuâtre dans la boue

Saturne fait usage de son dard

Pour stimuler son appétit

La mort peut être nécessaire

Aux autres

Je haie les satisfaits

Les stériles les nantis

Un mort suit l'autre sans connaître son visage

Une femme traverse les rails

En sang en sang ensanglantée

Personne ne la voit personne dans

L'ascenseur

Le jaune insoutenable d'une voix de canari

Mélange d'arsenic et de colle

Relie les côtes aux barreaux et ne laisse point

D'espace pour l'oiseau

Tout cassé

Briser l'image du pénis paternel

Lové comme un serpent dans un vase de Gallé

Écrasé sa tête sous un talon d'acier

(Un vague sentiment de retour

Vagit dans le ravin

Passer outre)

Il faut rire en montant les marches de la vieille maison

Éventrer les acteurs égrenant leurs bigoteries

Haïr les fébriles égorgé les assis

Déraciner les morts assoupis dans leurs excréments

Avaler cracher

Oublier maudire

La chair bêlante

Huileuse comme un lit défait

Il faut mastiquer éjaculer

Boucher les orifices

Replâtrer l'hymen

La mort est une porte-tambour

Un œuf saponaire un croupion

Il faut dégonfler le chancre sur la face divine

La détruire

Pissez fontaines

La vie hibernante des glaciers gonfle vos toisons de pierre

Vos clitoris s'écaillent

Ainsi que des crocodiles implantés dans le sable frais

Mort aux veules

Mort aux vrilles

Mort aux habitués de l'utérus

Mort aux isolés debout

Il y a du sparadrap sur la blessure de la vigne

Et une route parallèle à celle

Qui n'existe

Plus.

¡!!!¡

SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO (Luis Buñuel, 1965)

Simon of the Desert
Simon du désert
Réalisateur : Luis Bunuel
Auteur : Julio Alejandro
Acteurs : Calude Brook, Enrique Alvarez Felix, Hortensia Santovena, Francisco Reiguera,
Luis Aceves Castaneda, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Silvia Pinal
Producteur : Producciones Gustavo Alatriste

Simon le stylite médite sur sa colonne, dans le désert, depuis six ans, six semaines et six jours. Il résiste aux tentations du monde (une colonne plus élevée), de la chair (une meilleure nourriture), mais part ensuite avec le diable (une femme) dans une boîte de nuit de Manhattan.

43.12 minute film made in 1965. More than a mere parody of Christian fetishism, it's a critique of existentialism and post-modern nihilism. Simon ends up as a jaded poet in 1960s New York, incapable of being moved by the vibrant life around him. The first Simon of the Desert, Simon the Stylite (d. 459), was a 4th Century e.v. Christian fetishist who, for forty years, sat atop a fifty-foot pole outside of Antioch and engaged in a variety of self-abusive behaviors that, in typical Christian doublethink fashion, were interpreted as signs of his holiness. Buñuel's film is set in the middle-ages, and Buñuel's Simon seems to have faithfully imitated his predecessor's religious fetishes in what today would be considered extreme sado-masochistic performance art. Throughout Buñuel's Simon of the Desert, the devil attempts to seduce Simon with her sex, first as a tarty little girl, then as a seductress trapped inside a coffin, and finally as an androgynous Greek-like figure who bares her breasts. In Buñuel's film, Simon makes a man's severed hands reappear. Almost as soon as Simon performs the miracle, the man proceeds to hit his daughter on the head for asking him if they are the same hands he had before. It's a funny sequence, for sure, but Buñuel uses it to suggest that self-serving, fanatical Christians take God for granted. Simon loves everyone in the film equally, even the prancing priest with the offensively tidy frock who condescends to a dwarf with a questionable relationship to a goat named Domitila, but that doesn't stop the man from advising the priest to abandon his classist tendencies. "Your asceticism is sublime," says someone to Simon at one point. The same could be said about Buñuel's no-frills aestheticism. Unlike the expensive desires of the bourgeois and the gaudy outfits often worn by priests at Sunday service, Buñuel shunned all things extravagant, and it shows in his images.

LE MIRACLE TATOUÉ N° 7 (PDF)

"Le Miracle Tatoué" n° 7 n'a jamais vu le jour faute de crédits publics. Son sommaire étant conséquant et excitant, nous avons décidé de le publier ici en fichier PDF, donc de le diffuser gratuitement.  

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SOMMAIRE DU  "MIRACLE TATOUÉ" N° 7 : 

PHILIPPE PISSIER - GUILLAUME VIVIER - PASCAL ULRICH - DIDIER MANYACH - ERIC FERRARI -CHRISTOPHE MANON - DAVID THÜRLER - HERVÉ BRUNAUX - TOMMY TRANTINO - GÉRARD LEMAIRE - LAURENT ALBARRACIN - NATHALIE JAFFRÉ - DIANA ORLOW - ALEISTER CROWLEY - CHRISTIAN PRIGENT - CLAUDE PÉLIEU - CHRISTOPHE PÉTCHANATZ - PATRICK OUSTRIC - FRANCOISE DUVIVIER.

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JEAN-PIERRE DUPREY - DE MAINS ET DE LUNES

De rien qui trompe et qui tord

À rien de moi s'endort,

De moi s'endort, le rangement de la douleur

Pliée à l'ombre de ma peur ;

Est-ce ici que je rêve des morts ?

Une main au crépuscule dont je m'endors,

Dont je m'endors,

Prendra le temps de tout un voyage des terreurs

Qui payera le prix d'un tissu de chaleur

Jeté devant les voleurs

Pour m'envelopper dans ce que je rêve des morts. 

Maquette pour "Le temps en blanc"