Can Dialectics Break Bricks? Chicago Filmmakers

This is a situationist film. This is not a situationist film. Following on the success of last calendar?s Society of the Spectacle, we are pleased to present Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973, 90 min., video) in a video version subtitled by filmmaker Keith Sanborn.


2/22/1997 - 2/22/1997


This is a situationist film.

This is not a situationist film. Following on the success of last calendar?s Society of the Spectacle, we are pleased to present Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973, 90 min., video) in a video version subtitled by filmmaker Keith Sanborn. ?Made in 1973, one year after the dissolution of the Situationist International, Rene Veinet?s refashioning of a Chinese martial arts film is heir to a body of nearly twenty years of theoretical reflection and practice by the I. It is both an extraordinary realization of radical subjectivity by Vienet and a prime model of the Situationist tactic of detournement in the cinema.

Author
Keith Sanborn

Director
Keith Sanborn

Tags: Film, American, 1997