Bandito
13th January 2011, 15:23
http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_dialectics.html
Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what youll encounter in Ren Vinetss outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Vinets stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Vinetss target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.
Program Note
Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what youll encounter in Ren Vinetss outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Vinets stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Vinetss target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.
Program Note