Louis Benassi curated mixed-media events in galleries, cinematheques and squats. Photograph: Damien Sanville
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Tue 16 Mar 2021 14.05 EDT
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Louis Benassi, who has died aged 59 from cancer, was a distinctive artist/film-maker and countercultural event producer. In his work, and life, he drew on experimental and radical movements such as Dadaism, Fluxus, Lettrism, Situationism and Expanded Cinema. His films – single and multiscreen collages combining Free Cinema-style heightened realism with radical graphics, found footage and sonic interventions – were screened across Europe.
They often formed part of the mixed-media events Louis curated in galleries, cinematheques, site-specific locations and squats. Such happenings took place in London (including at the Whitechapel Gallery), Paris (where his work was especially welcomed), Berlin, Bordeaux, Dublin, Ghent and Naples.