01 - 03, August 2024
at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Indiranagar

...Farocki’s cool, composed essay films remind us of the treachery of images, but they also point to their liberating power. These works move beyond simply analysing our extremely visual, late-capitalist culture through its images and reveal the epochal changes that machine sight has brought about in every sphere of existence. One of the greatest strengths of these films is their genuine curiosity and interest in understanding the rapid transformations that mark our post-ideological, technological age. Critical yet never pessimistic, instructive yet never condescending, Farocki’s enduring body of work continues to inspire and illuminate.

- Srikanth Srinivasan

(Film critic and programmer. He is the author of “Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta” (2021, Lightcube) and

“Nainsukh, the Film” (2023, Museum Rietberg Zürich )
Srikanth's online film blog: The Seventh Art↗

READ THE FULL ESSAY HERE: Goethe.de_Redefining the image