Francis Alÿs Movies
- 2008

Children’s Game #4: Elastic
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Close-up on shiny boots, knotted elastic, cobbles. Within the confines of a courtyard two demure little girls are playing a game of confinement,...
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- 1998

Cantos Patrioticus 1 - street
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1998, 00:27:43
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- 2021

Children’s Game #25: Contagio
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An update of tag, the scariest of kids’ games. Instead of the touched person being “frozen,” they are contaminated and activated as...
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- 2001

The Rehearsal I
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A red VW Beetle drives up a hill, an image which is accompanied by a loud soundtrack of a brass band's rehearsal. The driver is listening to a...
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- 2011

Children’s Game #11: Wolf and Lamb
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A group of children hold hands in a circle. The child in the middle plays the lamb, the one outside is the wolf. The wolf tries to catch the lamb by...
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- 2006

The Collector
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For an indeterminate period of time, the magnetized metal collector takes a daily walk through the streets and gradually builds up a coat mad of any...
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- 2022

Children’s Game #33: Schneespiele
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The most basic sense of fun improvises on chance gifts of the environment. Snow-fun is too immediate to need rules, either. One game suggests...
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- 2008

Bolero (Shoe Shine Blues), 1996-2007
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A traditional animation, hand-drawn in 500+ frames (which are also on display as part of the installation). The animation consists solely of a shoe...
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- 1970

Prohibited Steps
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Lamma Island, Hong Kong, 2020.
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- 1997

Paradox of Praxis 1
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For more than nine hours, Francis Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melts.
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- 1994

Zapatos Magnéticos
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During the 5th Havana Biennial, artist Francis Alys put on his magnetic shoes and took daily walks through the streets of the city, collecting scraps...
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- 2002

When Faith Moves Mountains
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Alÿs’s motto for When Faith Moves Mountains is “Maximum effort, minimum result.” For this epic project the artist invited five...
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- 1997

Patriotic Tales
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The video shows the artist walking in circles around the flagpole (“Madre Patria”) in Zócalo, Mexico City’s monumental...
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- 2008

Children’s Game #3: Coins
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We see three kids from behind, standing at a set distance from a peeling, whitewashed wall. The rule is that each player throws a coin against the...
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- 2023

Siren
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- 2010

Tornado
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For the last decade Alÿs has made repeated trips to the dusty highlands south of Mexico City to chase the tornadoes that frequently occur in...
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- 2003

El Gringo
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As is well known, ‘gringo’ is the derogatory term Mexicans use to refer to NorthAmerican citizens. Shot in a central province of Mexico,...
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- 2021

Children’s Game #31: Slakken
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Snail racing is a game of unequal chances, especially when your snails are not trained champions, but randomly plucked off a wall; individual...
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- 2011

Watercolor
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"Mixing water from the Red Sea with water from the Black Sea". Trabzon, Turkey-Aqaba, Jordan, 2010.
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- 2005

Looking Up
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2005, 00:03:07
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