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Pierre Clémenti's avant-garde extravaganza Visa de censure no. X (1967-75) is one of the many French experimental films that has been rediscovered and re-enjoyed since Nicole Brenez took over programming of this strand of work at the Cinémathèque Française in the mid '90s. Clémenti's film is a long-lost masterpiece – a psychedelic feast that keeps churning up for another power-rock bow every time you think it's about to wind down. Its content is negligible: glimpses and runs of nude bodies, hippie games, mystic rituals and happening performances, all spliced and diced in a hundred, frenetic ways. But Kenneth Anger's somewhat similar films never reach this pitch. MORE Clémenti: Belle de jour © Adrian Martin May 2001 |
