When Philips commissioned him to design a pavilion for the 1958 Universal Expo, Le Corbusier responded with “an electronic poem in a bottle”, a film within the first multimedia project. This session presents the attempts of artists—Duchamp, Maya Deren, Broodthaers and Godard—to devise and create utopias of modern art: films and imaginary, unfinished, unfeasible expositions.
Poème électronique, Edgard Varèse, Le Corbusier, 1958, 16 mm, 8 min.
Witch’s Cradle, Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, 1944, 16 mm, 12 min. [unfinished film]
Kiev Frescos, Sergei Paradjanov, 1968, 35 mm, 13 min. [unfinished film]
Ceci ne serait pas une pipe (Un Film du Musée d’Art Moderne), Marcel Broodthaers, 1969-1971, 16 mm, 2 min.
La Pluie, Marcel Broodthaers, 1969, 16 mm, 2 min.
Reportage amateur (maquette expo), Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, 2006, video, 47 min.
