Photo Essay

‘BITTE’

Run Lola Run (1998; Dir. Tom Tykwer).

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

—T.S. Eliot.

“After the game is before the game.”

—S. Herberger.

“Man—

Probably the most mysterious species on our planet.

A mystery of unanswered questions—

Who are we? Where do we come from?

Where are we going? How do we know? What we think we know?

Why do we believe anything at all?

Countless questions—

In search of an answer.

An answer that will give rise to a new question—

And the next answer will give—

Rise to the next question and so on—

And so on.

But, in the end—

Isn 't it always the same question?

And always the same answer?

The ball is round.

The game lasts 90 minutes.

That's a fact.

Everything else—

Is pure theory.”

—Opening lines of Run Lola Run (1998; Dir. Tom Tykwer).

Photographs: March 12 & 15, 2023; Bangalore, India.

Artistic rendering: 7th April 2023.

Camera—Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro.