Lemaître invented interactive cinema, then pushed it to its limits by distributing instruction manuals as the audience entered the theater, inviting them to take an active part in the screening; and projecting the film directly onto their bodies. The whole operation became a veritable installation, with multiple screens, projections, and performances; Lemaître used his own body and voice, as well as those of his collaborators, as part of the experience. Between 1974 and 1985, he created a series of Films Imaginaires (Imaginary Films), which consisted of printed cards inviting spectators to create their own film by following the minimal instructions typed onto the cards; the resulting film(s) would become an homage to the written word which, trans- formed by projection, would take on a whole “other dimension. —Cécile Giraud

Contents:

Au-Delà du Déclic (10 mins, 1965-78, 16mm)

Un Navet (31 mins, 1975-77, 16mm)

Films Imaginaires (30 mins, 1985, 16mm)

Fin de Tournage (27 mins, 1985-90, 16mm)

L’Ayant-Droit (22 mins, 1991, 16mm)