Screen/Society--"The Society of the Spectacle" (Guy Debord, 1974)

Film Screening for Albertine Cinémathèque series [Feb 3 - Feb 11, 2022]:

"The Society of the Spectacle"
(Guy Debord, 1974, 90 min, France, French with English subtitles, B&W, Digital)

Six years after the publication of his Situationist classic "The Society of the Spectacle", Guy Debord released this semi-experimental, essay-film adaptation. Using the classic Situationist technique of "détournement" (think pre-digital remixing), Debord overlays a dizzying array of still and film images with text from the book. The result is a kind of organized chaos that nonetheless manages to provide a potent commentary on a world dominated by image and power.

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