René Viénet - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Kun-fu film kojem su dodani titlovi sa situacionističko-marksističkim aforizmima o klasnoj borbi.

Martial Arts and Marxist aphorisms meet head on in René Viénet’s 1973Situationist ‘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. - www.apengine.org/

A Toast to the exploited: for the extermination of the exploiters!
"Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you'll encounter in René Viénet's's outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet's stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet's's target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology."

Films

Can the Dialectic Break Bricks? (1973).
Girls of Kamare (1974).

Chinese, one more effeort if you would be revolutionaries! (1977).

Photographs

In the 1970s.
In the 1990s.
In the 2010s.

Texts in Translation

Preface to The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Harold Isaac (February 1967).
Enrages and Situationists in the Occupations Movement, (1968).
Notes for the Meeting of 28 April 1970.
Notes for the Meeting of 5 May 1970.
Declaration (11 November 1970).To Christian Sebastiani (24 November 1970).
To Jonathan Horelick and Tony Verlaan (29 December 1970).
To Christian Sebastiani (29 December 1970).
Rene Vienet: the bad boy of Sinology (Radio France, March 2004).
Mao: The Curse of the Mummy (2006)
Ghosts of the Maoists (2008)
Marie-Olympe de Gouges in the Pantheon? (2013)