Double Feature! Van Gogh & The Society of the Spectacle

VAN GOGH
France | 1948 | Alain Resnais

THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
France | 1974 | Guy Debord

Two newly restored French classics. The first is an Oscar-winning short in which the future director of Last Year at Marienbad uses van Gogh paintings and drawings to recount the artist’s life. The second is an avant-garde collage-essay film in which Situationist thinker and political theorist Guy Debord employs a wealth of film clips and text to formulate a radical critique of capitalism, mass marketing, and consumer culture. It was inspired by Debord’s landmark 1967 book of the same title. “A theoretical post-Marxist film offering extended blocks of text (to be read or heard) about media and spectacle along with clips of movies ranging from silent Russian classics to softcore porn, it isn’t put together to entertain or even to go down easily, but it rarely ceases to be stimulating…A priceless document.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. Total 109 min.

Van Gogh & The Society of the Spectacle, Cinematheque streaming exclusives, can be viewed online from 4/2 thru at least 4/22 via the link below. Doing so supports the Cinematheque. Screening fee is $10 and you have 72 hours to watch them. 

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/spectaclecleveland