Mathusalem

Mathusalem is a 1927 film with Antonin Artaud and Marcel Barencey. See the storyline, runtime (9 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five sequences-- some of Jean Painlevé's earliest film work-- projected against a backdrop of white clouds.