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.... it begins like this: the noise of a typewriter, one by one the letters print out under the contrasting portrait of the poet: AN-TONIN-ARTAUD-BORN-IN-MARSEILLES- THE-FOURTH-OF-SEPTEMBER-EIGHTEEN- HUNDRED-AND-NINETY-SIX-DEAD-IN-IVRY- THE-FOURTH-OF-MARCH-NINETEEN- HUNDRED-AND-FORTY-EIGHT ....the voice of Jean-Claude Dauphin comes in: "That's all well and good, except that - as all writers know - dates lie. Who would believe that Antonin Artaud was born in 1896, when he himself told Jacques Rivière in 1924: 'I can truly say of myself, that I'm not in this world, and it's not simply a spiritual attitude'? Who would believe that Antonin Artaud wasn't born on January 13, 1947 when in front of a stupefied assembly, he gave birth to himself, live, on the stage of the Vieux Colombier Theatre, 14 months before the administrative date of his death? Well then? Could Antonin Artaud have died before being born? It is a hypothesis, that nurtures, without a shred of evidence, the film you are about to see. Welcome to the crypt." André S. Labarthe

France - 2001 - 47 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation André S. Labarthe Scénario André S. Labarthe Image Jean-Claude Ducoret Son Erwan Kerzanet, Benoît Reyne Montage Didier Vandewattyne Musique Richard Wagner, J.P Leguay

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