HOMMAGE À HARUN FAROCKI | Window Projections | Every day from sunset to 02:00 AM.
As part of HOMMAGE À HARUN FAROCKI, the Goethe Institut Montreal is presenting works by Harun Farocki in our windows. Farocki is considered an important representative of German experimental and documentary film. This year would not only have been Harun Farocki's 80th birthday, July 30, 2024 also marks the tenth anniversary of his death.
The individual films will be projected onto the windows of the Goethe-Institut at 1626 boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2T1, Canada and can be viewed on a screen in the building during the Goethe-Institut's opening hours:
Bedtime stories
Einschlafgeschichten
Harun Farocki
1977
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Bedtime Stories or
Einschlafgeschichten are goodnight stories for children, made 1976/77, in which Farocki uses simple objects to elucidate the cinematographic method. The stories deal with bridges, cable cars and ships crossing roads. -
What is worth saying? What is worth remembering? - The two girls in the film imagine what is shown. Bridges that move. Something quite different to 'bridges'. As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between daytime and dreamtime with a poetic game, an endless game, a game with no end. A game which can fade out without becoming fragmentary. "Are you asleep?", one of them asks at the end of a clip – and the final shot is of the two, asleep; the game is over. The girls are portrayed by Lara and Anna, Farocki's daughters.
- Hans J. Wulff
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