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To End God’s Judgement
Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu
Antonin Artaud
1947 • France • 39’
Commissioned by Ferdinand Pouey, head of the dramatic and literary broadcasts for French Radio in 1947, the work was written by Artaud after he spent the better part of WWII interned in an asylum where he endured the worst of his treatment. A raw and emotionally naked piece, an anguished rant against society, a raving screed filled with scatological imagery, screams, nonsense words, anti-American invectives and anti-Catholic pronouncements.
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