"Can Dialectics Break Bricks?"

[Martin Blank]

Has anyone else heard of or seen this movie?

Miles

[OleMarxco]

No - but it sound's kick-arse, allright. Is it left-leanin' or criticizin' or sumthin'? (Since Dialectic's is a "buzz-word" of the left, heheheh!) ;)

[Monty Cantsin]

i posted about it before i want to find out where i can download it.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2005, 07:24 AM
No - but it sound's kick-arse, allright. Is it left-leanin' or criticizin' or sumthin'? (Since Dialectic's is a "buzz-word" of the left, heheheh!) ;)
It was a project of the French Situationists. They redubbed an old Kung Fu film with political commentary and used the fights as a metaphor for political arguments between revolutionary workers and bureaucrats. It's hillarious!

Miles

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 10 2005, 07:53 AM
i posted about it before i want to find out where i can download it.
I don't know about that. I have a VHS copy of it.

Miles

[Sabocat]

LOL. Here you go...


DVD version (http://www.5minutestolive.com/1D/CANDIALECTICS.htm)

[OleMarxco]

Shhh, you have to pay for it, not to mention shippin' payment's! Aren't there any trailer's aroun'...or better yet, 'free "demonstrations"', if you catch my drift? :P

[Monty Cantsin]

yer the situtationist are dead and the were anti-capitalist so where is the free copy?

[Quinlan Vos]

[I don't know about that. I have a VHS copy of it.]
Really? Where did you get it? Situationist vids are notoriously hard to find and there are no official distributors of it, the only copies that are around are bootlegs of some sort. I was lucky enough to see the Society of the Spectacle movie, but Can Dialectics Break Bricks sounds much more interesting.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by Quinlan [email protected] 14 2005, 05:16 PM
[I don't know about that. I have a VHS copy of it.]
Really? Where did you get it? Situationist vids are notoriously hard to find and there are no official distributors of it, the only copies that are around are bootlegs of some sort. I was lucky enough to see the Society of the Spectacle movie, but Can Dialectics Break Bricks sounds much more interesting.
I got a copy of it from a comrade of mine in the IWPA. He got it years ago from another comrade of his. It seems to just pass from hand to hand.

Miles

[workersunity]

that means ill be getting it next :hammer: ;)

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 01:09 AM
that means ill be getting it next :hammer: ;)
That can be arranged. :D

Miles

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

I propose free copies for all members of IWPA affiliate organizations! :lol:

[Monty Cantsin]

http://www.ubu.com/sound/

this site used to have Debord's movies but the links posted in an older thread no longer work.

does anyone have links to radical docos and movies, we should start our own database from this site. though i dont know how hard that would be.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 01:48 AM
I propose free copies for all members of IWPA affiliate organizations! :lol:
Take it up with Martin! I got it from him! :P

Miles

[amos]

Try here (http://www.acte-gratuit.net/la-dialectique-peut-elle-casser-des-briques-visionner-sauvegarder.html).

You'll have to install the streamplug plugin though.

Cheers
Amos

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Thanks comrade!

The plugin doesn't work on Firefox though, so you'll have to use Internet Explorer.

[Monty Cantsin]

does that have english sub-titles?

[amos]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2005, 10:01 PM
Thanks comrade!

The plugin doesn't work on Firefox though, so you'll have to use Internet Explorer.
You just have to install it manually for Firefox.

Cheers
Amos

[Monty Cantsin]

it made me download Netscape Browser but then says it can't find the right plug in...WT?

[amos]

I definitely have the plugin working in Firefox, but I can't remember the exact steps required. Although I did have to 'allow websites to install software' for the streamplug site specifically on the tools menu.

The English subtitles are hard coded in.

Cheers
Amos

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

does that have english sub-titles?

Yes.


it made me download Netscape Browser but then says it can't find the right plug in...WT?

Use Internet Explorer.

[amos]

Right, instructions for installing the plugin in Firefox.

Click on the link at the bottom which says Problème de plugin?

This will take you to the Streamplug website choose the English version of the site (unless you prefer to install your software in French of course).

Click on the button which says:

Mozilla - Firefox - Netscape version available! Installation

Open the Options Menu in Firefox (its under the Tools menu in the Windows version, and the Edit menu in Linux). Open the Web Features tab, make sure the option Allow sites to install software is enabled, copy the webpage address for Streamplug, click on the button marked allowed sites and add the streamplug address you just copied to the list.

On the webpage follow the instructions, click on the button, download the plugin it should install automagically, restart your browser and go back to the film page, you should find that the player comes up automatically.

If it doesn't install then post here and we'll see if we can diagnose the problem.



Use Internet Explorer.

Why on earth would I want to use Internet Explorer? I prefer to use a modern, reasonably secure browser that's free (as in beer and as in speech), rather than a shoddy, antiquated piece of proprietary software that's got more security holes than I care to think about. Plus I only use Window$ about a quarter of the time and I don't think there's a version of IE for Linux or FreeBSD. I am actually in Window$ at the moment so as soon as I finish this post I'll check that the instructions work for Slackware and FreeBSD.

Cheers
Amos

[amos]

Unfortunately the Streamplug player hasn't been released for Linux yet although it is promised soon, so if you want to watch the film it has to be using Windows for now. :(

Cheers
Amos

(This is me using FreeBSD by the way.)

[Monty Cantsin]

http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html

from here you can get more situationist films -

from Guy Debord, "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni" (in two parts), Refutation of All Judgments, Society of the Spectacle (in two parts. the one's i've downloaded so far have english subtitlies.

from Rene Vienet, "The Girls of Kamare" (in two parts)

there's also one doco on the situationist international under the name of " On The Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time" which is the name of a debord film.

[Monty Cantsin]

i downloaded part one of "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni" and it hasnt got english subtitlies.

[KC]

At my school they're having a "Films of The Situationist International." From the 17th to the 20th. They're showing The Society Of The Spectacle, Venom & Eternity, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Guy Debord, His Art And His Times, and The Girls of Kamare. Has anyone seen any of these other movies, and what did they think?

[rioters bloc]

lol i just finished watching this film. fucking awesome. i found this thread and got all excited cos i thought thered be some ace discussion but seems that it's just been about plug ins and whatnot :P

did anyone actually end up watching it??

i started watching it without a context at all, i thought it was originally made in china and then dubbed into french and then given english subtitles :P

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 23 2005, 01:48 PM

did anyone actually end up watching it??

yer i downloaded it.


i started watching it without a context at all, i thought it was originally made in china and then dubbed into french and then given english subtitles :P

where did get your information about the film from?

[rioters bloc]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 24 2005, 01:57 AM

i started watching it without a context at all, i thought it was originally made in china and then dubbed into french and then given english subtitles :P

where did get your information about the film from?
nowhere, thats what i mean - no context :P

[bayano]

classic. i have it on vhs too