The AntiConcept

The film was shown for the first time on 11 February 1952 at the AvantGarde 52 cinema club It consisted of blank illumination projected onto a weather balloon accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952when the Letterists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Letterist journal Ion 1952 reprinted JeanPaul Rocher 1999 and later reissued in a separate edition augmented with associated texts Editions Allia 1994 Ion also included the text of Guy Debords film Howls for Sade which was dedicated to Wolman and featured his voice in its own soundtrack