Peking Duck Soup [excerpt #3] - by René Viénet (1977)

This is a short excerpt from the 1977 détournement political documentary "Peking Duck Soup" (also called "Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires") by french Situationist director René Viénet. This clip re-purposes a 1970s TV ad for the mint flavored French soda Ricqlès to illustrate the burtal bureaucratic maneuvering inside the Chinese Communist Party. The "situationist cinématheque" film serves as a definitive anti-maoist history of China and appropriates a great variety of media sources (particularly archive footage and newsreels) to compose a political commentary sharply critical of the CCP and Mao Tse-Tung.

See the full feature length film online via UbuWeb:
http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_chinois.html


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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• détournement
• René Viénet
• situationist cinématheque
• Situationist
• Peking Duck Soup
• mao
• anti-mao
• china
• gang of four
• Ricqlès