Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Le Grand Content, Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit
26 July 2010
Le Grand Content, Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit “But you have to face that teenagers like coffee and lets say the stock market are things which won’t stay hot forever.” Here’s an ...
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Pascal Baes: Topic II
12 July 2010
Topic II, Pascal Baes Animate Projects and Portland Green Cultural Projects – APPGCP if you like – currently have a call out for proposals for animated dance projects – download guidelines ...
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Red Dead Redemption
28 June 2010
Red Dead Redemption, directed by John Hillcoat If you’re the sort that’s unlikely to devote hours of your life playing open-world videogames, then you may prefer to experience the excellent animated ...
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Television is a drug by Beth Fulton
21 June 2010
Television is a drug, Beth Fulton Here’s a great animation by Beth Fulton that uses a wry monologue written and performed by American screenwriter Todd Alcott. The combination of kinetic typography ...
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1500 Images of Kate Moss in 60 Seconds
14 June 2010
1500 Images of Kate Moss in 60 Seconds, Graham Dolphin, 2001. An oldie but a goodie. Almost a decade on and 1500 Images of Kate Moss in 60 Seconds still packs ...
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Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

René Viénet, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Martial Arts and Marxist aphorisms meet head on in René Viénet’s 1973 Situationist ‘détournement’ of a chop-socky Kung Fu movie. Taking Doo Kwang Gee’s ‘The Crush’ Viénet replaced all the original dialogue with lines like “Afterwards… The Workers Councils will be realized in generalized self-management,” turning a tale of warring clans into an hilarious yet thought-provoking account of the proletariat’s struggle against the nefarious bourgeoisie. Their most fearsome weapon is not the Shaolin style but the awesome power of dialectics. A subversive blow struck against the ruling classes? Or a dopey prank? You decide.

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