top of page
SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - THE FOUNTAINHEAD

nationality: HUNGARY & FRANCE

duration: 1:50:00

made in: 2010

previous screenings: Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2013

biography:
synopsis:

Société Réaliste is a Parisian cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. It works with political design, experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering consulting. Polytechnic, it develops its production schemes through exhibitions, publications and conferences.

The full-length movie of Société Réaliste, The Fountainhead is based on the 1949 capitalist propaganda eponymous film written by Ayn Rand, arch-priestess of American libertarianism and author of some of its strongest cultural myths. The original studio movie tells the story of a Promethean modernist architect - a character based on the figure of Frank Lloyd Wright - fighting against a surrounding collective decadence in the name of his personal genius. Société Réaliste has removed the sound and deleted every human presence to reduce the film to its decorum, its ideological architecture.

bottom of page