Critique of Separation

1961 · 18 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 216 VOTES · DIR. Guy Debord

Overview

Debord’s eighteen-minute Critique of Separation directs its experimental attentions to “the documentary.” Debord draws from a catalogue of newsreel footage and book covers, rephotographed photographs, views of Paris and its neighborhoods, and a catalogue of disabused, seemingly offhand footage of him and his friends in the porous zone comprising the cafe and the street.

Dialogue Timeline — 193 lines

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00:01:22 Critique of the Separation
00:02:27 What real project has been lost?
00:03:48 that is not illustrated by images must be repeated
00:04:15 After all the empty time, all the lost moments
00:04:49 this long restlessness sometimes eventually evolves into a routinized sleep.
00:05:34 where we can test our strength but never use it.
00:06:22 In chance situations we meet
00:07:18 a life that has not really been found.
00:07:53 Nothing you can hold on to.
00:08:50 regarding which we possess nothing but pitiful documents.
00:09:24 modeled on the same old pattern as the rulers.
00:09:58 When did we miss our chance?
00:10:41 a less explicable feeling of shame.
00:11:14 is called wasted time —
00:11:50 with its incomprehensible allusions and tiresome delivery.
00:12:39 in artistic works are often attractive
00:13:16 No. A coherent artistic expression
00:13:48 a documentation of the conditions of noncommunication.
00:14:29 from those who hear it abstractly and without any power over it.
00:15:14 We get used to it, it seems.
00:16:29 Of course. And how to do it?
00:17:06 so there is none for concluding it

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed193
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:01:22
Final line00:17:06

Production Record

DirectorGuy Debord
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes216