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“I will make no concessions to the public in this film,” says Guy Debord at the beginning of his 1978 film, and he stays true to his word. The palindromically-titled In girum (roughly translated as “we spin around the night consumed by fire”) is not so much a difficult film as an act of pure negation from the founder of the Situationist International.
Like all of Debord’s films, In girum stands apart from cinema, not to mention the modern world as it has evolved into its present state. Images from magazines, comics, and popular films are turned inside out (a process defined by Debord as détournement) to illustrate what he sees as the complete vacuity of mediatized society, of which we the viewers are unknowing participants.
To those who complain that they do not understand his purpose or his historical allusions, Debord suggests that they “blame their own sterility and lack of education rather than my methods; they have wasted their time at college, bargain shopping for worn-out fragments of secondhand knowledge.”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni is an act of condemnation, but it is also an affirmation — of our ability to build on the best rather than the worst in mankind, to create a true Utopia rather than a paltry counterfeit. Without exaggeration, this is one of the most provocative experiences you’ll ever have at the movies. —Kent Jones
A panel with filmmaker Olivier Assayas, writer Greil Marcus and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin will follow the screening.
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Fri Oct 3: 6:30 *
*Admission: $16 (unreserved)
$1.50 surcharge per ticket ordered online
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