Biography of Guy Debord

Psychoanalysis of the show

December 28, 1931
November 30, 1994
Born in Paris on December 28, 1931, Guy Debord is the Lettrist international in 1952 and cofounder philosopher in 1957 of the Situationist International, the most radical and paradoxical movement of the second half of the twentieth century; is the first to make the crossing of art and criticism of the daily life at the base of its activities. The word and the practice of the Situationists (and in particular by Debord), mark and will influence strongly the movement of May 1968. The most famous text of Guy Debord's "the society of the spectacle" (published in 1967), became a real book of worship, prophetic forerunner of the contemporary situation with thirty years in advance. The book represented a publishing also in Italy and it's not hard to track down, behind the theories and sophistries of many intellectuals who today dealing with television (Enrico Ghezzi and Carlo Freccero), the fingerprints of the French thinker. The most secret, most invisible and lesser-known opera Debord has so far been the strictly cinematic, understood as autonomous creative output.
Debord has built between 1952 and 1978 three features and three short films, unseen for decades to the express wish of the author but recently returned in full, in accordance with the heirs, at the Venice Film Festival a few years ago (in specially reissued new copies). This event, awaited for years, has allowed us to see how, in her tangled and complex relationship with the cinema, but also hate object of deep love, Debord was a rare work and mysterious, a filmic text-extraordinary philosophical melancholy and compactness, where harsh reflection on the show and challenge it take place within the same cinematographic language. Guy Debord he committed suicide on November 30, 1994.
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