CINE-POEMUL, O GĂSELNIŢĂ AVANGARDISTĂ. FONDANE, ARTAUD, TZARA ȘI...CEILALŢI
The cine-poem, an innovation of the avant-garde. Fondane, Artaud, Tzara and… the others

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to investigate the connections between cinema and poetry during the years of the so-called historical avant-gardes. Its starting point is the interest shown by the French (Romanian born) Jewish author Benjamin Fondane in cinema, as a critic, script writer, director and poet. In 1928, Fondane published in Brussels a volume of cine-poems, which tried to reinvigorate poetry through the use of cinematographic techniques. This volume, Three Scripts. Cine-poems, allows us to compare Fondane’s practice and theory to the achievements of his contemporaries in the same direction (Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud and many others), that of the search of the intimate communication between poetry in cinema.

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