Antonin Artaud Movies

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his 1927 epic, which contains much of the silent original, with newly shot material added in both 1965 and 1971,...

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and...

Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it...

Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a...

A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION.

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

The process of attaining coronation in the Anarchic Empire requires that Heliogabalus pass through the domains of incorporation of political, sexual...

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his...

In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five...

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras...

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show,...

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

While researching their subject’s life for their feature My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud, co-directors/writers Gerard Mordillat and...

This two part video showcases practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty.

The filmed archival of the Bengali theatre “Vincent-er Mrityu” by the theatre group Arghya inspired by Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: the...