Maurice Lemaître

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 became interested in his political and avant-garde thoughts. In 1950, Lemaître becomes very invested in the Lettrist group and created in the same year the "Youth Front", a political journal; while simultaneously creating a literary and pictorial magazine, entitled "Ur," which remains as "The Minotaur" of lettrism. Since his literary creations, Lemaître has continued to develop various fields within the Lettrist movement: poetry, theater, dance, novel, painting, photography, film, economy, psychopathology and psychotherapy . Despite his dedication to the movement, since 2000, Lemaître distanced himself from the movement and is now relatively isolated from the main group.

Directed

1. Has the Film Already Started? (1951) — Director
2. Nos stars (2002) — Director
3. Vies de MB, V: Tunisie, Tunisie — Director
4. Un film porno (1978) — Director
5. Un navet (1977) — Director
6. Six films infinitésimaux et supertemporels (1975) — Director
7. 50 bons films (1977) — Director
8. The Great Train of History (1978) — Director
9. L'Écrevisse mathématique (1969) — Director
10. Pellicule (1968) — Director
11. Chutes (1968) — Director
12. Tous derrière Suzanne, jeune, dure et pure! (1978) — Director
13. Image (1974) — Director
14. Un film à faire (1970) — Director
15. Une copie mutilée — Director
16. Un programme d'avant-garde (1970) — Director
17. Positif-Negatif, notre film (1970) — Director
18. Moteur! (1967) — Director
19. Le film de demain (1967) — Director
20. Un film commercial et militant — Director
21. To Screen on the Sky, At Night… (1979) — Director
22. Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After (1970) — Director
23. L'Amour, qu'est-ce? (1989) — Director
24. Des scènes d'amour très réalistes avec force détails et gros plans (1978) — Director
25. Chantal D., Star (1968) — Director
26. Love Reinvented (1979) — Director
27. Ganeden (2003) — Director
28. Le petit dieu (2002) — Director
29. Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse Mai 68 (1969) — Director
30. The Song of Rio Jim (1978) — Director
31. Un soir au cinéma, suivi de Pour faire un film (1963) — Director
32. Erich Von Stroheim (1979) — Director
33. Au-delà du déclic (1965) — Director
34. Montage (1977) — Director
35. Une Oeuvre (1968) — Director
36. Nada!, le dernier film (1978) — Director
37. Fin de tournage (1990) — Director
38. Films Imaginaires (1985) — Director
39. L'Ayant-Droit (1991) — Director
40. Bande annonce (1993) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Nude Vampire (1970) — Georges Radamante
2. Venom and Eternity (1952)
3. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself
4. Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) — Self — Filmmaker (uncredited)
5. Has the Film Already Started? (1951)
6. The Night of the Clocks (2007)
7. Portrait of Maurice Lemaître (2004) — himself
8. Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019) — Lui-même
9. Imag-en cada verso (2019) — self (archive sound)
10. Maurice Lemaitre, Tarzan et Mao (2006) — him