The Cinema Must Be Destroyed: The Films of Guy Debord

For Guy Debord, détournement is a revolutionary method for questioning and subverting the ideological function of media within capitalist society.

Détournement dislocates images from their initial context and reinserts them into new cinematic works that reveal the contradictions concealed by dominant ideology. This theoretical framework profoundly influenced found footage filmmaking, transforming archival reuse into a critical practice of media appropriation.

The Cinema Must Be Destroyed is a four-day Guy Debord film retrospective to celebrate the new edition of Debord’s Complete Cinematic Works, edited and translated by Ken Knabb, along with recent re-releases such as The Society of the Spectacle and Situationist International Anthology, and a collection of Knabb’s own writings, The Joy of Revolution and Related Texts.

Film program:
– August 7: Four early short films
– August 8: The Society of the Spectacle
– August 14: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
– August 15: Guy Debord: His Art and His Time

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