If You Are A Typical Spectator, What You Are Really Doing Is Waiting For The Accident To Happen
Francis Alÿs
, 1996
A videotaped journey of a plastic bottle as it is blown by the wind around Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo.
Language
Taal
Langue
No dialogue
Duration
Duur
Longueur
10 min
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.33
A videotaped journey of a plastic bottle as it is blown by the wind around Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo.
“As Alÿs’s introductory title explains, the video is a “metaphor of Mexico’s ambiguous affair with modernity, forever arousing, and yet always delaying the moment it will happen”. The artist himself appears in characteristically low-key mode, as the sound man with a boom, drifting in and out of shot.”
Edward Platt
Language
Taal
Langue
No dialogue
Duration
Duur
Longueur
10 min
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.33
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
Francis Alÿs
Image
Beeld
Image
Francis Alÿs
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Francis Alÿs
