Animation

Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!

Name: Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!
Director: B. S. Johnson
Genre: Animation
Released: 1968-11-15
Duration: 2 min

November 15, 1968

Made in 1968 at the invitation of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), B.S. Johnson's animated take on Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes' (1918) - precursors of 'concrete' or 'visual' poetry - is both a cheeky two-fingered salute to French Modernism, and an irreverent homage to surrealism.