Hurlements by ■david wallraf / Gerald Fiebig

Film samples, soundscapes, noises and static and abruptly changeing, audiophonic walls. A sound-artistic and conceptual work in relation to a movie by the Situationist Guy Debord.

Guy Debord’s 1952 film Hurlements en faveur de Sade is a radical work with no images and minimal sound, challenging the very definition of cinema. Its purpose was to create a “situation” in which the audience’s expectations were subverted, marking a potential endpoint for film as an artistic medium. Debord’s film, with its rejection of spectacle, resonates with the concept of noise as it obliterates signal, while the melancholic voices hint at early Situationist ideas. Artists Gerald Fiebig and David Wallraf pay tribute by translating the film's themes into sound, using noise and collage to explore its oppositional nature.