“In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth.”

— Isidore Isou

Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

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Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist 1925–2007

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“I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”

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“After the speech he looked at us ironically and added softly: "Otherwise you would die". The words were icy but the tone like velvet, almost friendly.”

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“It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes… The general opinion is, however, that words, not phones or phonemes or phoneme systems, are the units of speech.”

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Source: Speech, 1930, p. 182-183; As cited in: Angela Senis (2016: 293)

“In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth.”

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