Society of the Spectacle
Chicago Filmmakers
Legendary Situationist Buy Debord?s long impossible to see film, Society of Spectacle (1973, 87 min.) shown in a new video version subtitled by filmmaker Keith Sanborn, returns for two shows.
Legendary Situationist Buy Debord?s long impossible to see film, Society of Spectacle (1973, 87 min.) shown in a new video version subtitled by filmmaker Keith Sanborn, returns for two shows.
?Few groups have had as profound an impact on French culture as the Situationist Internationale with its unparalleled interrogation of political and cultural relations. While the writing of leading Situationist Guy Debord has become the cornerstone clich‚ of postmodernism, his paintings, artist books and films remain unknown. Society of the Spectacle ? Debord?s 1973 adaptation of his book ? is an essay using detoured images (Hollywood and East Block feature sequences, news footage, commercials, porn, stills) accompanied by his own voice-over and quotations from Hegel, Marx, and other.? (KS)