Maurice Lemaître still alive !

To mark the centenary of the birth of the great painter, thinker, admirable orator and above all film-maker of genius - well before J-L Godard - and tireless defender of Youth Worldwide, the survivors of the French Section of the International Front of Supercapitalist Youth© in collaboration with Re:Voir and Collectif Jeune Cinéma are honoured to present to the lucky public of this month of March 2026, THE supertemporal and anti-supertemporal and infinitesimal screening that they dedicate to the genius of the master. 

The programme carefully chosen by the organisers - named here: Game leader - consists of an anthology of the master’s works on the one hand, and on the other, the opportunity to screen 2 or 3 films, by way of example, made by the best of his apostles - in-depth connoisseurs of his work. In this way, the public will have a concrete idea of Maurice L.’s invaluable contribution to the enrichment, if not the ‘cleansing’, of the youngest of the arts: cinema.

Moreover, and this is an important aspect of Maurice L.’s visionary and avant-garde work, the audience is constantly called upon, i.e. throughout the screening, either to react or not to react, according to the Master’s written directives contained in the opus “Œuvres de Cinéma”, which the organisers of the games are preparing to follow to the letter.

Otherwise, the set-up is the one that has been used since the dawn of time, well known to cinema-goers at MK2 for example: a lit screen, a darkened room and spectators seated comfortably side by side.

But SURPRISE! LEMAÎTRE’s theoretical and practical work offers some very IMPORTANT insights!

It’s up to you to discover the programme as a whole and in detail, with the enthusiasm and, of course, the seriousness and goodwill that the future of cinema requires!

The C.A.F.A.E.R. and the French Section of the Front International des Jeunesses Supercapitalistes©, of which Demetra L. Nikolopoulou and Armando Navarro are founding members, were centres of artistic agitation and radical dissemination alongside the Lettrist movement.

These collectives were the vectors of a cultural activism aimed at blasting the boundaries between creation and life. As Maurice Lemaître’s collaborators, they programmed and screened a number of key works by Maurice Lemaître, Isidore Isou and other Lettrists such as Roland Sabatier at leading institutions such as the Cinémathèque Française, the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, USA), the Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3) and the Spoutnik cinema in Geneva. In addition to this distribution mission, the collectives have orchestrated a series of interventions and conceptual performances and conceptual performances. This approach, which fuses radical irony with the rigour of the avant-garde, has produced a number of devices, often ‘infinitesimal’ or ‘super-temporal’, transforming the cinema screening or exhibition into a collective ritual of destruction and reconstruction of meaning.

Demetra L. Nikolopoulou trained as a painter (Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1986). After reaching the peak of her pictorial art with a series of oil paintings based on the notion of the supplement (Gallerie Bernard Jordan, Basel International Fair), she turned to other practices such as short animated films that recompose a still image through movement, video-stills conceived as still lifes, and film-slideshows with live sound (narration and sound coming from the device).

Since then she has been developing an open-ended work in two phases, exploring the relationship between text and image:
1. © d. L. n. Micropress, a tiny publishing house

dedicated to visual poetry. Its mini-collections aim to intrude into the recesses of our most common occupations:
- Collection Abribus, to leaf through while waiting for the bus.

- Collection Pied de grue. Take a look at it while queuing somewhere.
- etc.
http://dln-bleu.blogspot.com

bubu.lulu.2000 - Instagram

2. Drawing recordings, sound narratives based on collages of various texts enhanced with musique concrète-type sounds that she endlessly recomposes for each live programme with a new title in the form of an extract.
“Drawing recordings by Deltanik, extract: …..

http://soundcloud.com/deltanik/tracks

American multidisciplinary artist born in San Francisco and based in Paris, Armando Navarro develops a practice at the intersection of the visual arts, experimental cinema, performance and ritual. His career has been marked by an in-depth exploration of the avant-garde, notably alongside the Lettrist movement. A collaborator of Maurice Lemaître, he has played an active part in many Lettrist exhibitions, films, reviews and screenings. He co-founded the collectives C.A.F.A.E.R. and the Section Française du Front International des Jeunesses Supercapitalistes©. Through these structures, he has shown many works by Maurice Lemaître, Isidore Isou and Roland Sabatier in prestigious institutions such as the Cinémathèque Française, the Pacific Film Archive (USA) and the Spoutnik centre in Geneva.

His satirical approach informs his film Size Zero, a feminist thriller inspired by Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto, which was selected for the Nancy-Lorraine and Côté Court festivals, and broadcast on ShortsTV.
As founder of the collective †een▲ge g☺d, strongly inspired by Lettrism and Maurice Lemaître in particular, he now explores the construction of new belief systems through the fusion of pop culture and religion. In projects such as Don Giovanni (Justin Bieber Remix), commissioned by the Mannheimer Sommer 2026 festival, he transforms Mozart’s opera into a mass participatory ‘super-temporal’ ritual, performing a veritable collective exorcism.

Favouring immersion, his work transforms the audience into an active choir, blurring the boundaries between spectacle and spirituality, entertainment and alienation. Using ritual as a malleable artistic structure, he questions the way communities are formed and broken down in an age of capitalist narcissism. His performances and installations have been presented internationally, including at the International Festival of Experimental Theatre in Cairo, the Audio Art Festival in Krakow and the Générateur in Paris.