Closed Vision

An avant-garde surrealist film by avant-garde director Marc'O, who was closely associated with the French Lettrism movement at the time of its creation and also contributed to the production of the movement's magnum opus Venom and Eternity (1951). The film presents itself as both a cinematic and psychological experiment, capturing the unorganized flow of the author's consciousness onto the film screen, which is simultaneously animated by materializing these fleeting thoughts and ideas through various visual motifs, ranging from staged scenes with live actors to shots of artistic works (which aesthetically resemble the best of independent creations of that time, such as Dadaist collages by Fernando Léger and Jean Cocteau, who personally heavily promoted the film, including at the Cannes festival). Overall, this is a high-quality surrealist and impressionist film, of which there were already many in the sphere of independent experimental cinema, but it is uniquely enriched by the addition of a second layer above the plane of purely visual representations of the artist's subconscious ideas: the sound, monologue, and internal dialogue, all of which give the already suggestive images greater depth and new meanings. (26.03.2016)