A visual and humorous adaptation of Guy Debord’s 1967 legendary essay La Société du Spectacle, unpacking the fucktangular dynamics of alienation, powerlessness and emptiness under the tr(i)ump(h) of capitalism and information technology.

How can one adapt a theory that is an attack on the image itself into a film? Since 1967, Guy Debord's critical manifesto, The Society of the Spectacle, has been an essential theoretical foundation for any attempt to analyze the capitalist society of images that permeates every aspect of life in the Western world. We live in a continuous sensory bombardment of distractions that keeps us as passive consumers - a condition that hasn't exactly improved since the revolutionary '60s. What should one do? Artist Roxy Farhat and filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) bring Guy Debord's ideas into the 21st century. Created from contemporary images, found material, and original scenes, the film explores and illustrates the impact of consumerism and how the circulation of images creates desire and profoundly changes the way we perceive ourselves and interact with each other.

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in America between 1967–1975 with appearances by Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

Göran Hugo Olsson (b. 1965, Lund, Sweden) is a film director and producer. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading filmmakers internationally. His first cinema release Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998) is a Swedish classic. The feature documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) became a huge hit in festivals, theatres and TV broad- casts worldwide, garnering numerous awards. It was followed by Concerning Violence (2014), narrated by Ms Lauryn Hill, which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale to critical acclaim. He codirected Fonko (2016) and then That Summer (2017) which both were screened at festivals and television worldwide. He is one of the funders of the production company Story.

Roxy Farhat (b. 1984 Tehran, Iran) is a visual artist artist and award winning director based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her artistic practice spans over a wide set of mediums, including video, performance, installation, documentary film, music video and more. Between politics and the aesthetics of the com- mercial sphere, Farhat’s work questions and examines established roles and expectations; Why do we live life in the weirdest way? Humor, absurdity, collaboration and the re-rendering of capitalist imagery are important elements of her practice. Roxy holds a BFA from Konstfack in Stockholm and a New Genres MFA from UCLA.