Tonight my old roommate and good friend Harrison (A.K.A BIG MOUTH) is DJing an even at the Red House called Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means:
"A yearlong film program that will explore the role of cinema as a medium for political transformation by way of an examination of the medium itself and the act of what it means to ‘watch’ a film.The films included in this program all critique the spectacle / spectator relation inherent in the structure of cinema and attempt to imagine new relationships between the medium and the viewer. Taking its conceptual grounding from what Giorgio Agamben refers to as the cinema of ‘pure means’, this series will look specifically at cinematic strategies that refute fabricated meanings, thoughts and desires. It is through the work of the cinema that the cinema, too, has to be destroyed."
Films being shown tonight, all by Guy Debord:
Critique de la séparation (1961)
La Société du spectacle (1973)
La Société de tous les judgements, tant élogieux qu'hostiles, qui ont été jusqu'ici portés sur le film La Société du spectacle (1975)
P.S. I GOT INTO PRAGUE 2010!!!!!!!
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