Re: BOSTON PREMIERE: Guy Debord His Art and His Life

Nov. 25, 2004

Type: discussion

Hi Joy:

Do you know if they will be having a screening here in NYC?

Cheers,
Lee

On 11/25/04 11:59 AM, "Joy Garnett" <[email protected]> wrote:

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