BOSTON PREMIERE: Guy Debord His Art and His Life (fwd)

Nov. 25, 2004

Type: discussion

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:40:47 -0500
From: Hiroko Kikuchi <[email protected]>
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Subject: BOSTON PREMIERE: Guy Debord His Art and His Life

Thursday, December 2 at 7PM, Bartos Theatre
Film Night with a discussion led by John Gianvito
"Guy Debord His Art and His Life" (France/1994/60 min.)
Directed by Brigitte Cornand and Guy Debord
BOSTON PREMIERE

This work is a portrait-testament, made at the request of the
legendary Situationist writer-philosopher-artist in 1994 when he
realized his end was near, due to a painful terminal illness. In this
film, Guy Debord sums up his life, emphasizing the importance of his
films and his attraction to painting, then pays homage to his friends
Asger Jorn, Gil Wolman, Alice Becker Ho and others. Debord offers a
commentary on our society through a succession of extracts from
televised reports, important moments of the previous ten years,
"torpedoed" by the author's written commentary inscribed on the
screen like the pages of a book.

Film Night, organized by John Gianvito (a filmmaker, teacher, and
curator based in Boston), is in conjunction with the exhibition
"Cerith Wyn Evans: Thoughts unsaid, now forgotten…" on view at the
MIT List Visual Arts Center through December 31, 2004.

All exhibitions and public programs at the MIT List Visual Arts
Center are free and open to the public. More information about the
exhibition: http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/exhibitions

Directions to the MIT LVAC:
http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/general/index.html#LOCATION