Guy Debord
Date of Birth: 28 Dec 1931
Country: France
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 6 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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e Spin around the Night Consumed by the Fire is Guy Debord's testament: an autobiographical collage looking back on the revolutionary years of the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting on the social rollback of the period since, and trying to make some personal sense of the total historical pattern. A modern masterpiece... (ourbrisbane.com)
Critique de la séparation (1961) - Short Film
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 café and the street. (ubu.com)
This film by Guy E. Debord is based on his 1967 book of the same title both of which convey ideas about the consumer capitalism's mode of production and the effects on everyday life. Though both sources use a different means of communication they both powerfully convey the ideas of the situationists. I wont rant on about the ideas contain within this film which are quite profound and have influenced heavily on the Anti-Capitalist movement and post-structuralism through thinkers like Jean Baudril (imdb)
Howls for Sade, a feature-length film created in June 1952, contains no images whatsoever. The soundtrack is accompanied by a completely blank white screen during the spoken dialogues. These dialogues, which altogether total no more than twenty minutes, are broken up into short fragments amid passages of total silence totaling one hour (the final portion of the film consisting of an uninterrupted 24-minute period of silence). (mubi.com)
The panning shot of an anonymous city street establishes the tensile, yet integral relationship between citizen and environment in Guy Debord's dense and minimalist essay On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time, describing the rows of generic apartment buildings as places of refuge from the constant social immersion imposed by the shared spaces of urban living. (Strictly Film School)
Guy Debord's response to all judgment regarding "The Society of the Spectacle."
