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Farocki’s Cinematic Historiography: Reconstructing the Visible
Ute Holl
Farocki’s work consists in pointing towards the visible. His art consists in opposing the visible and the obvious. Farocki’s political claim is to demonstrate that in reality nothing is veiled, sealed, or concealed. Meticulous perception is his strategy for emerging from self-imposed nonage. His images do not deal with ideological mist or the ontological mysteries of an image, but with the inertia of our perceiving eyes, with laziness or a lack of mental audacity. His voice-over commentaries…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2014
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Installation, War & Conflict, Film
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Experimental Film