While Guy Debord, the leading theoretician of the Situationist Internationale, has become "the cornerstone cliché of postmodernism," as Keith Sanborn notes, his paintings, artist's books, and films remain unknown. Withdrawn from circulation in 1984, Society of the Spectacle is one such unknown film. Debord's 1973 essayistic film could be described as a translation of his renowned book of the same name, but this is to underappreciate the work. Society of the Spectacle is both an adaptation and a provocative example of a favored Situationist tactic, détournement. Defined as "the reuse of already existing artistic elements in a new ensemble," this ploy engages the familiarity of popular images while subverting their embedded ideology. Society of the Spectacle is a complex montage constructed of détourned images from feature films, newsreels, porno, news footage, and commercials.-Steve Seid Followed by:Refutation of All Judgments (Guy Debord, France, 1975). Premiere of the English version! In case the title doesn't say it all, this is Debord's own concise answer in film to those who wrote about his film Society of the Spectacle. Appearing in 1975, two years after Society of the Spectacle, Refutation, which was unprecedented, remains without imitators, still showing itself of vastly greater intelligence than the critical reception which has greeted either it or Society of the Spectacle in the intervening twenty-six years.-Keith Sanborn (20 mins, In French with English subtitles, B&W, Video, Courtesy Ediciones la Calavera)