SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL - Film Pack #1: Guy Debord

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The Situationist International (SI) was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism, Lettrism and the early 20th century European artistic and political avant-gardes. Formed in 1957, the SI was active in Europe through the 1960s and aspired to major social and political transformations.

The most prominent French member of the group, Guy Debord, has tended to polarise opinion. Guy Debord's best known works are his theoretical books, Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. In addition to these he wrote a number of autobiographical books. 

In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernisation of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces during the post-WW2 modernisation of Europe. He rejected as the twin faces of the same problem both capitalism of the West and the statism of the Eastern bloc. Alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle' - "a social relation between people that is mediated by images". Debord's analysis developed the notions of "reification" and "fetishism of the commodity" pioneered by Karl Marx and Georg Lukács. This analysis probed the historical, economic and psychological roots of 'the media'. Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology: rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social organization which has reached its climax in capitalism.

Guy Debord made six films between 1952 and 1978. Following the still-unsolved assassination of the films� producer in 1984, all of them were withdrawn from circulation for nearly twenty years...

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Original Title: Hurlements en faveur de Sade
Released: 1952
Eng. Title: Howls for Sade
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410096/
Video: XVID 368x256 25fps
Audio: MP3 128k 48kHz
Length: 01h 03m 31s
Size: 158.9MB
Language: Français
Subtitles: English, Portugues

Original Title: Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps
Released: 1959 
Eng. Title: On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481910/
Video: XVID 656x480 25fps
Audio: MP3 128k 48kHz
Length: 18m 48s
Size: 248.1MB
Language: Français
Subtitles: English, Portugues

Original Title: Critique de la séparation 
Released: 1961
Eng. Title: Critique of Separation
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481821/
Video: XVID 720x576 25fps
Audio: MP3 192k 48kHz
Length: 17m 23s
Size: 313.8MB
Language: Français
Subtitles: English

Original Title: La sociéte du spectacle
Released: 1973
Eng. Title: Society of the Spectacle 
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070712/
Video: x264 704x560 25fps
Audio: MP3 118k 48kHz
Length: 01h 27m 18s
Size: 699.5MB
Language: Français
Subtitles: English

Original Title: Réfutation de tous les jugements
Released: 1975 
Eng. title: Refutation of All Judgments
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468851/
Video: MPEG-1 Muxed 320x240
Audio: MPEG-1
Length: 21m 46s
Size: 217.2MB
Language: Français
Subtitles: English (onscreen)


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