Olivier Mosset, ‘Untitled,’ 1968 (via Contemporary Art Daily)

Fun and Games for Everyone is the second of three films the French director Serge Bard made before changing his name to Abdullah Siradj and abandoning le cinéma. This one immortalizes a 1968 opening at the Rive Droite gallery, dedicated to Olivier Mosset’s series of identical white canvases with black circles in the center.

The film was shot in ultra-high-contrast black and white, an effect achieved by cinematographer Henri Alekan:

Alekan asked LTC film labs to flash the negative before processing it, giving the film a semi-negative look.

Bard was a member of the “Zanzibar group” of filmmakers, which also included Mosset, Jackie Raynal, and Philippe Garrel, later the director of a number of really miserable movies starring Nico. On the soundtrack of Fun and Games is French jazzer Barney Wilen, whose big move in ‘68 was a “free rock” album dedicated to Timothy Leary.

The trailer is below, and the full movie is available for rent on Vimeo. Patient and attentive viewers will spot Salvador Dalí, Amanda Lear, and Barbet Schroeder; there is, for instance, a glimpse of Dalí at 36:45. Caveat spectator: the full movie is a non-narrative deal. There is much gorgeous footage of slightly dazed French people, and the movie opens with a long period of silence; such dialogue as occurs is almost entirely in French, and there are no subtitles.