Impasses and potentialities of an assyntagmatic film

Abstract

This article proposes a discussion over what is here established as an assyntagmatic film, targeting May 68’s film production. La révolution n’est qu’un début. Continuouns le combat (1968), by Pierre Clémenti, is the focus of the present analysis. As for what is understood as an assyntagmatic film, we take into account the emergence of a “wild state” throught visual overprint, as established by Noguez (2010), and a subjective time, as proposed by Clerget (2001). It’s an opposition to what is called a syntagm on cinema by Metz (2010).