Re-enactment
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Re-enactment |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 5 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Alÿs |
| camera | Rafael Ortega |
Re-enactment is a video film by the Belgian action artist Francis Alÿs from 2000. It was made in collaboration with the Mexican filmmaker Rafael Ortega . The work is one of a series of “walks” the director made through Mexico City , which he used for improvised art actions.
action
The film documents how Alÿs legally buys a 9 mm Beretta pistol around noon in a gun shop on Palma Street in central Mexico City on November 4, 2000 . After leaving the shop, he unlocked the pistol and, holding it very visibly in his left hand, walks seemingly aimlessly through the busy streets. Nothing happens at first. After about twelve minutes, a police car stops next to him. Two police officers arrest him and force him roughly into the car.
Alÿs persuaded the police officers to re-enact the scene in the same place the next day, this time with the knowledge of the police.
Ortega recorded the two walks with a handheld camera. The two sequences are shown side by side in two channels to reveal the ambiguity of reality and fiction.
Public property
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
literature
- Ralph Fischer: Walking Artists , transcript Verlag, 2011 ISBN 978-3-83761821-1 , p. 141 (available from Google Books)
Web links
- Re-enactment on YouTube
- Pamela C. Scorzin: Francis Alÿs (PDF; 3.4 MB) , artist, issue 86, issue 8, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy: Die Pinakothek der Moderne Munich: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Video Art , CH Beck, Munich, 2005 ISBN 978-3-4065231-20 , p. 112