Monday, September 29, 2008

Society of the Spectacle English Overdub Screening


I screened an unofficial english overdub of the infamous situationist documentary The Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord 1973) that I prepared myself using Ken Knabb's translation. It was free and open to the public. For more information on this film go here.

special thank you to Cyrus Smith and Jonathan Legare for use of their spaces, and to Beau McDaniel for last minute use of his video projector.

And here is the rest of it.

5 comments:

Acumensch said...

I love "Can Dialectics Break Bricks" have you seen that?

Acumensch said...

you can view lots of related films here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html

Avalon Kalin said...

thanks yeah. i got that one on video in the late 90's before i even had email. Not Bored! was distributing bootleg videos just to get this stuff out there because no had any of it. Ubu is amazing.
There is another video with Knabb's translation overdubbed in english online somewhere. I think the UBU stuff is Sanborn's subtitles.

Acumensch said...

i made this video a while back -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE0Ckn0V41I

Avalon Kalin said...

thanks acumensch! we should talk about collaboration...