André S. Labarthe was a French actor, film producer and director.
He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Vivre sa vie and was a celebrated television documentary maker.
He directed the documentary Georges Bataille – À perte de vue (1997) and David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh (1999).
Georges Bataille – À perte de vue (1997)
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh (1999)
“Le globe terrestre est couvert de volcans qui lui servent d’anus.”
“The terrestrial globe is covered with volcanoes, which serve as its anus.”
From: Georges Bataille, ‘The Solar Anus‘. via Surreal Documents in a post[1] on Skullflower.
Ma Mère by Bataille, cover by publisher 10 | 18
#1) 10/18 is a publisher in France (with a sub collection named domaine français). Their series of Georges Bataille novels are illustrated by Hans Bellmer. One of the nicer book illustrations around. I like the overall feel of the design. Can someone tell me more about the graphic designer over at the 10/18 publishing imprint?
Here is the 10/18 cover of Madame Edwarda.
#2) In 1997 André S. Labarthe produced a documentary on Georges Bataille. The focus was Bataille’s extreme, perverse, surreal story ‘Madame Edwarda‘ where the prostitute reveals that she *is* God (‘je suis DIEU’) – perfectly merging the sacred and profane, a key notion for Bataille … in the final section of the clip, the infamous Chinese torture victim is shown … in his last work, the heavily-illustrated ‘Tears of Eros,’ Bataille said this about these photos:
posted by hiperf289 (check his other Youtube clips)
