Society of the Spectacle (a digital remix) | Film 1964 is a double bill screening at E:vent.  The two films, Samuel Beckett’s ‘Film 1964’ and Mark Amerika’s ‘Society of the Spectacle (a digital remix)’ drawing from different sources, present ideas on the question of self perception.

‘Film 1964’, which has no dialogue, takes its basis from Irish philosopher George Berkeley’s theory Esse est percepti, (to be is to be perceived: even after all outside perception has been suppressed, self perception remains). 

Drawing from the writings of Guy Debord, ‘Society of the Spectacle (a digital remix)’ is composed of an accelerated remix of pictures taken from Google searches of Debord’s writing. Each image that is found on the internet is trimmed and spliced into Debord’s original collage of black and white stock footage. Thousands of manipulated images are then compiled into a stream of ‘agit-pop iconography’.