It’s a neoliberal myth that change comes through our individual consumer choices, recycling our garbage and voting. We often ask ourselves, what can I do as an individual? The answer came to us in this film: Stop being an individual. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep. “The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. “Guy Debord’s text offers us a way of understanding the pacifying forces of capital, consumption and images,” Farhat and Olsson note. The documentary is in competition for the New:Vision Award. The Society of the Spectacle premieres on Thursday (March 23), with an additional screening set for Saturday (March 26). Guy Debord’s own (anti)films are given a modern counterpoint by satirical interventions in a visual work that is not afraid to criticize neither itself nor the cult around Debord and situationism.”
The festival adds, “In 27 episodes, Farhat unfolds his theses through conversations with situationism expert Mikkel Bolt, Andreas Malm ( How to Blow Up a Pipeline), critic Valerie Kyeyune Backström and professor of film Jyoti Mistryothers, among others. “What to do? And how do you film a notoriously complicated theory that attacks the very image itself? Artist Roxy Farhat and filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson ( Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) bring Guy Debord’s ideas into the 21st century.”
“We live in a continuous sensory bombardment of distractions that keep us in the role of passive consumers – a condition that has not exactly improved since the revolutionary ’60s,” CPH:DOX programmers write in a description of the film.
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