Category: Cinema
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Before Sunrise as dérive
So I recently had the synchronicity of re-watching Before Sunrise and reading Guy Debord’s Theory of the Dérive in the same week. https://rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-text/Debord2006e.pdf One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. It strikes me that Before Sunrise captures a dérive of: If you look…