Maurice Lemaitre - Nos Stars / Le Petit Dieu - Lowave

Maurice Lemaitre is amongst one of the most important and creative artists of the second half of the 20th century. His cinematic work has led to a fundamental questioning of the relationship between film and spectator, image and sound, art and criticsm, cinema and other types of images. His art is characterized by its inventiveness, it's joy of creating, and a radical and loud critique allowing for Lettrism to flourish as an avant-garde movement.
The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema, just as, yesterday, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Asta Nielsen, Louise Brooks and Georgette Leblanc passed along the glorious avenues of creative film. But if, most of the time, it was only much later that we discovered, through books, the thoughts and dreams of past stars, fortunately we can still ask our present-day-friends - our stars, stars of today's film-makers - to delight us by revealing some of their thoughts and dreams.
The story of the little god, an Olympic child, a philosophical lesson aimed at children, the viewers. Letters, words and phrases appear on the screen in the shape of multiple typographies and rich colours orchestrated in movement. Le Petit Dieu is an invitation to travel, one of the main themes of Lemaitre, and a genuine manifestation of film Lettrism.