GRIMACE
dir. Erró, 1967
France. 45 minutes
Gibberish.

"GRIMACES is just what it says: grimaces. You see 180 internationally known artists making faces. The
soundtrack is Lettrist poetry." –Jonas Mekas

The Icelandic artist Erró’s GRIMACE was made over several years as he toured the globe snapping vignettes of famous artists. Edited together with a Lettrist poem in which Erró phonetically plays around
with each artist’s name as its soundtrack, the film becomes a meditation on stardom and identity. Warping and renegotiating the relationship between the viewer and the celebrities on screen, GRIMACE’s simple premise proves effective.