The Lab + ATA present:
The Films of Guy Debord
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007, 7:30 PM
$6-10 suggested donation
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
Critique of Separation
Howls for Sade
"Situationist strategist and adventurer Guy Debord made six films. A subtitled version of The Society of the Spectacle (based on Debord's book of the same name) has circulated during the last few years, but the others have rarely been seen outside France. During September - October of 2007, The LAB and ATA will co-host a presentation of all six films, subtitled or dubbed with the authorized translations of Ken Knabb.
Ken Knabb will briefly introduce each film, and will answer questions following each film.
Technically and aesthetically these films are among the most brilliantly innovative works in the history of the cinema. But they are really not so much "works of art" as subversive provocations. Passage is an "anti-documentary" on the adventures of Debord and his friends in the bohemian underworld of 1950s Paris. Critique of Separation is an attack on the global "commodity-spectacle system", and at the same time a critique of the cinematic medium insofar as it is an expression of that system. Howls for Sade is in a class by itself, and will be shown in an abridged form for reasons that will become evident.
Ken Knabb's translations, which he was asked to make by Debord's widow Alice, are also available in the book Complete Cinematic Works of Guy Debord (AK Press, 2003)."
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[graphic from google image search for Guy Debord]
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