The function of the cinema, whether dramatic or documentary, is to present a false and isolated coherence as a substitute for a communication and activity that are absent. To demystify documentary cinema it is necessary to dissolve its “subject matter.” Guy Debord, Critique de la séparation
Regardless of its subject matter, the cinema presents heroes and exemplary conduct modeled on the same old pattern as the rulers. Guy Debord, Critique de la séparation
For a long time I have been perhaps the only person to offend it in this domain.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Its mass of fictions and grand spectacles amounts to nothing but a useless accumulation of images that time sweeps away.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
For my part, if I have succeeded in being so deplorable in the cinema, it is because I have been much more criminal elsewhere.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The cinema, too, must be destroyed. Guy Debord, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps