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Category Archives: Film
In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading
The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading
Critique of Separation (1961): “One of the greatest antifilms of all time!”
Until the environment is collectively dominated, there will be no real individuals — only specters haunting the objects anarchically presented to them by others. In chance situations we meet separated people moving randomly. Their divergent emotions neutralize each other and … Continue reading
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading
Howls for Sade (1952)
The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord
Is there a future for Anarchism in America?
From Freedom News (17/08/25) The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges Joel Sucher Anarchism in America is the title of a documentary produced way back in 1980; a time when the world was a … Continue reading
For Marcel Ophuls (1927-1925)
He [Eichmann] was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness – something by no means identical with stupidity – that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is “banal” and even funny, if … Continue reading
The time of the assassins of the assassins
From Lundi matin #475, 13/05/2025. Walter Benjamin said somewhere that salvation will come from children. But what if children are starved, murdered? Then every hungry, murdered child will come back to haunt this world and shatter it. All disordered, they … Continue reading
InterRebellium: Documents of rebellion
subMedia announces the first episode of their new documentary series, InterRebellium, featuring a deep dive on the 2019 uprising in Chile.
Guy Debord’s film eye
Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →