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How Cinema Lies to Your Brain: Godard vs. Farocki
Think cinema reflects reality? Think again. Every cut is a deception. Every frame is a battlefield. Slide 1: You believe movies show the world as it is. Wrong. They construct an illusion designed to keep your mind asleep. Slide 2: Jean-Luc Godard detonated the visual playbook. He proved that cinema is not simple entertainment, but ideological warfare. Slide 3: Harun Farocki pushed the blade deeper. He dissected surveillance, industrial footage, and war optics to expose how images weaponize perception. Slide 4: Put them together, and modern media collapses. Images are never neutral. They secretly dictate what you believe, what you desire, and who you obey. Featured Creators and Core Work: Book: Speaking about Godard, co-authored by Harun Farocki and cultural theorist Kaja Silverman. The book breaks down eight seminal Godard films to uncover how revolutionary editing deconstructs cinematic power. Harun Farocki (1944–2014) was a legendary German essay film pioneer who scrutinized media institutions, operational images, and modern control systems. Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) was the radical spearhead of the French New Wave who rewrote the grammar of cinema through daring political montage. Stop consuming images passively. Learn how to dismantle the visual machinery before it controls how you think.
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