April 26th, 2007: sixteen researchers and activists give sixteen scathing views of the world that Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing for us. The reality of the right, full of self-confidence on the threshold of assuming power. An uncompromising deconstruction of Sarkozy-style rhetoric, which seems likely to remain relevant for some years.

Debord's 1975 Refutation of all judgments whether in praise or hostile which have up to now been brought on the film called Society of the Spectacle summaries its complex mission in its title. In this 20- minute film, Debord addresses the criticism directed at his film, “The Society of the Spectacle”, in various French newspapers. Not only does it remain unique in the history of film for its unprecedented and never repeated project; it also hits his targets directly and with the same power as the attacks directed at him. For the press is not a dialog with its subjects, any more than a film is. That a film should talk back directly to the press publicly shows up the unilateral nature of the press. It is a court with no appeal.

The IMF and World Bank summit in Prague in September 2000 provoked a large-scale mobilization of citizens around the world. Seattle, Washington and Millau have already demonstrated the power of the antiglobalization movement and the independent media. "Prague, People and Profit" examines the movement and the changes in Check society since the fall of the Eastern block.

  “Because one must produce, one must by all possible means of activity replace nature wherever it can be replaced, one must find a major field of action for human inertia, the worker must have something to keep him busy, new fields of activity must be created, in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake manufactured products, of all the vile synthetic substitutes in which beautiful real nature has no part, and must give way finally and shamefully before all the victorious substitute products (...)". Antonin Artaud.  

Document of the anti-military performances of Mestre, sale of firearms at a market in Marseille. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

For after all, how do we know that 2 and 2 make four? or that the force of gravity works? or that the past is unchangeable? The doubts of Winston Smith (main character of George Orwell's novel 1984) and found footage from "Operation Iraqi Freedom" are the starting point for a meditation on the state of the human being.

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