The anti-movie that dares you to ask: why finish anything when starting is this fun?
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in impossible movies and works without meaning... I believe in the anti-movie. I believe in the non-movie. I believe in Urgent... My first full length movie that is so anti-everything that I sometimes wonder if it really does exist!"
Editing
Isou's Lettrist techniques weaponized against 70s pop culture
Direction
Courant's manifesto-as-movie anti-aesthetic
Director
Gérard Courant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Courant was a key figure in France's underground 'Cinéma différent' movement, publishing the influential journal Cinédoc in the 1970s.
The title's contradiction—'Urgent' versus the dismissal of execution—mirrors Isidore Isou's Lettrist theory that creative destruction matters more than polished product.
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