Jean Genet's 'Un chant d'Amour' Concrete poetry of nostalgia and pleasure

"Un chant d'Amour" or "A Song of Love" is Jean Genet's only cinematic work, both written and directed by him in 1950. This twenty-five minute long silent film provides us with a key insight into reading Genet's literary works, written before or after the film was made. However, besides a book by Jane Giles on Genet's cinema i.e. "Un Chant d'Amour", the writer was not able to find any major critical and analytical writings on this work; no more than a few pages in books, sentences, paragraphs, allusions and quick references in essays, most of which referring to some of the film's most iconic scenes as a "visual counterpart" to what is being described in words.;With regards to the title, "A Song of Love" or "A Love Song", the essay attempts to locate this underground film, made in 1950 in relationship to our contemporary notions of a "love song". Given the broad influence of Genet's works, specifically this short film, on numerous visual artists and filmmakers, this paper is intended to give an analytical yet subjective reading of the spatial and temporal experience of the film through its erotics.