On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
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On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (French: Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps) is a 1959 French film by Guy Debord, the title of which suggests its own subject matter. The film’s narrated content concerns itself with the evolution of a generally passive group of unnamed people into a fully aware, anarchistic assemblage, and might be perceived as a biography of the situationists themselves. Among the rants which construct the film (regarding art, ignorance, consumerism, militarism) is a desperate call for psychogeographic action:
When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment, “ordinary life” may prevail once again. The geographical limitation of play is even more striking than its temporal limitation. Every game takes place within the boundaries of its own spatial domain.
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