The world stopped

At the Blick Film Festival, Goethe's Institute will show Harun Faroki films

A fuzzy granular photograph appears on the large screen. As soon as you can distinguish anything-only black shadows on a distant white background. But the sunsid text makes all the horror captured on it. This is Autheshwitz aerial photography. The moment of history seized in the black and white. Baracks, gas chambers, towers, rows of people frozen either in anticipation of sending to work, or death. The picture was taken from one of the reconnaissance planes who were engaged in the search for arms industry plants in the eastern part of the German Reich. “But they did not search for the camp, so they did not find it,” the announcer will say.

This is a frame from the film by the German director Harun Faroka “Pictures of the World and Signatures of War”, which opened in Moscow last Wednesday, organized by the Goethe Institute, the Blick film festival (“View”).

The son of an Indian doctor, Harun Faroki, was born in 1944 by the Sudes, and later moved to West Berlin, where, before his death, he shot, in total, 130 films. Today, Faroka is experiencing the Renaissance. They are demonstrated at numerous festivals around the world, from Berlin to Vladivostok.

Faroka had a strong tendency to Soviet documentaries, first of all he was inspired by Jiga Vetov. “Faroki, who lived in free from the censorship of Germany, tried to improve and update early Soviet cinema in his ribbons,” says one of the organizers of the festival Michael Baute.

Recently, the institute acquired the rights to all Faroki films. The goal is to make the work of the master more affordable. “It is impossible after his films to watch the world indifferently. Something is changing in the viewer, ”says Astrid Vega, responsible for the cultural program of the institute of Goethe.

The program of the two -week festival, in addition to the most expressive work of Faroka, includes the show of films of other directors. These are German, Russian and Soviet paintings. In the center of documentary cinema and in the cinema hall of the Tretyakov Gallery will be shown “Delay-Die-Risen” by Vitaly Kanevsky, “Yella” Christian Petzold, “But the word“ dog ”does not bark” Bernd Shokh and another 18 works of Faroka, among which are the famous “Giderams of the Revolution” and “Something becomes visible”.

Teresa Weiss