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People's Movie Night: "Society of the Spectacle" + (some of) The Films of Guy Debord
The People's Movie Night The People's Movie Night is Wooden Shoe Books' FREE Saturday Night Movie series, running for nearly 2 years now. Every single Saturday, come by at 7:30PM for a political movie, and a cup of popcorn. Wooden Shoe Books 508 s. 5th St. Philadelphia, PA 19147 September 27th- Society of the Spectacle + (some of) The Films of Guy Debord One of the great political theorists of the 20th Century and, unfortunately, a big authoritarian asshole, Debord took all of his films out of official circulation in 1984. Since his suicide in 1994 his widow has been overseeing re-releases of the films but there are still no official English-language versions available: we will be showing pirated, subtitled videos of varying quality. We do have a high-quality version of Debord's revolutionary 90 minute film "Society of the Spectacle" which incorporates footage from many famous films, Soviet and Polish films, industrial films, American Westerns, soft-core porn films, news footage, advertisements, and many still photographs. Events such as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the revolutions in Spain in 1936, Hungary in 1956 and in Paris in 1968, and people such as Mao Tse Tung, Richard Nixon, and the Spanish Anarchist Durruti are represented. Throughout the movie, there is both a voiceover (of Debord) and inter-titles from Debord's book "Society of the Spectacle" but also texts from the Committee of Occupation of the Sorbonne, Machiavelli, Marx, Tocqueville, Emile Pouget, and Soloviev. The innovative use of subtitles and intertitles is part of Debord's goal "to problematize reception" and force the viewer to be active. The spectacle, as Debord reminds us, "is not a collection of images, but a relationship among people mediated by images." (90 Min) Also showing: "On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time"(1959) (19 Min) and "Critique of Separation" (1961) (18 Min)
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