Portrait of René Viénet

René Viénet

Authors · Directors · academic · publisher · sinologist · translator

🇫🇷 France

French film director (born 1944)

About René Viénet

René Viénet (Chinese: 魏延年; pinyin: ‌Wèi Yán'nián‌) (born 6 February 1944, in Le Havre) is a French sinologist who is famous as a situationist writer and filmmaker. Viénet used the situationist technique of détournement — the diversion of already existing cultural elements to new subversive purposes.

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Known for
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Mao by Mao, Autoportrait
Born
1944-02-06

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