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Marudororu no uta (1977)
A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de Lautréamont’s 1869 proto-Surrealist poetic novel which, for instance, describes beauty as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. In the novel’s six cantos, a young misanthrope indulges in depraved and destructive acts. Unexpected encounters abound, with turtles and birds joining Terayama’s regular cast of snails and dogs to wander over books and bare torsos. Feverish video processing posterizes, inverts and overlays images that are further colored by sound—pushing the limits of his literary adaptation. Terayama wrote that the only tombstone he wanted was his words, but, as Les chants de Maldoror demonstrates, words need not be confined to carved monuments or bound hardcopies.
Updated May 26 2020
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Cast
Susumu Oono
Yoko Ran
Crew
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Shūji Terayama
Director
Shūji Terayama
Writer
Akio Suzuki
Music
The Count of Lautreamont Isidore Ducasse
Novel
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