Belgian-French poet and abstract painter Henri Michaux made the film Images du monde visionnaire in 1963 with French filmmaker Éric Duvivier, commissioned by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. The film evokes the effects of hallucinogens such as mescaline and hashish through a whirlwind of images and light effects.
On the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to this project at the Vandenhove Centre for Architecture & Art (until 23 May), Film-Plateau presents a program on illness, madness, hallucination, and modern art. Alongside two short films by Duvivier, the programme includes L’ordre, Jean-Daniel Pollet’s lyrical essay film about a Greek leper colony, also commissioned by Sandoz, and a documentary on Japanese calligraphy by painter Pierre Alechinsky, a friend and key influence on Michaux.
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