Guy Debord

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Murdered in a parking lot on Avenue Foch in March 1984 at the age of 52, Gérard Lebovici found himself at the intersection of several worlds: the media industry, artistic ambitions, and radical subversion. Was it a mafia hit, a political assassination...? The investigation never reached a conclusion. Founder of the Artmédia actors' agency, film producer and distributor, creator of the Champ libre publishing house, friend of Guy Debord, Gérard Lebovici found himself at the extreme melting point of the tensions that mark our world: money, images, celebrity, networks, revolt, radical criticism, and marginality. Tracing an unusual journey, this portrait of "Lebo" paints a picture of an era that began with the radical protests of May 1968 and ended with the cynicism of the 1990s.

A Latin palindrome is the title of Guy Debord's last film, in which he, as narrator, explains that he will make neither concessions to the tastes of his viewers nor to the dominant ideas of his day. After extensively insulting the audience that goes to the cinema to forget its heteronomous life, the film becomes autobiographical, using images from the world of spectacle: advertising brochures, clips from feature films (Les enfants du paradis), comics, aerial footage of Paris, tracking shots through Venice, photographs of friends – all commented on by Debord, with an at times melancholy undertone: "This Paris no longer exists." His assessment is that one of the great pleasures of his life has been the sensation of the passage of time, and as a witness to the disintegration of social order, he has loved his epoch.

Debord directed his first film, "Hurlements en faveur de Sade" in 1952 with the voices of Michele Bernstein and Gil Holman. The film has no actual images; instead, it shows bright white when there is speaking and black when there is not. Long silences separate speaking parts. The film ends with 24 minutes of black silence.

Debord’s eighteen-minute Critique of Separation directs its experimental attentions to “the documentary.” Debord draws from a catalogue of newsreel footage and book covers, rephotographed photographs, views of Paris and its neighborhoods, and a catalogue of disabused, seemingly offhand footage of him and his friends in the porous zone comprising the cafe and the street.

Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle"