Francis Alÿs Movie Trailers
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Children’s Game #42: Tenebom Trailer (2023)
14 October 2023
The name of the game comes from the Spanish “tenedor,” fork, but its other name, “Come fango, Eat Mud,” seems more apt as we watch a silvery fork, its tines reduced to one sharp prong, piercing the earth again and again.
Children’s Game #45: 1, 2, 3, Freeze! Trailer (2024)
15 April 2024
Grandma’s Footsteps in Britain, Red light, green light in North America, Thunder, weather, lightning in Austria, One, two, three, ciggy forty-three in Argentina, Frozen in Mexico, Statues in Greece – all refer to a game of stealth and balance popular around the world.
Children’s Game #41: Chapitas Trailer (2023)
13 October 2023
Ordinary bottle tops, once flattened, threaded and tensed for spinning, become as sharp as gladiator swords.
Children’s Game #44: Uárhukua Trailer (2024)
14 April 2024
The Purépecha community has played Uárhukua for 3,500 years. The game symbolises the fight between the old sun – the night – and the young sun – the day.
Children’s Game #40: Chivichanas Trailer (2023)
12 October 2023
Cuban children have always built chivichanas for racing, using any wood to hand and ball bearings for wheels.
If you are a typical spectator, what you are really doing is waiting for the accident to happen Trailer (2009)
06 October 2009
“After about ten minutes the action comes to an abrupt end when Alÿs unthinkingly follows the bottle into the street and is hit by a passing car.
Children’s Game #43: Mosquito de Pachacútec Trailer (2024)
13 April 2024
The game “Mosquito of Pachacútec” refers to the historical metaphor of how the Inca Empire was challenged in its territorial conquests by a tiny adversary: the mosquito.
Children’s Game #46: Conkers Trailer (2024)
16 April 2024
First recorded in the Isle of Wight in 1848, conkers was commonly played in the UK until it was banned from most schools in the early 2000s.
Children’s Game #49: Pau de Sebo Trailer (2024)
19 April 2024
A guitar, a bacalao and a teddy bear dangle at the top of a wooden pole. The mast is slickened with grease.
Railings Trailer (2004)
10 November 2004
This video performance showcases two works by the artist. In the first, he walks through the streets of London, trailing a wooden drumstick along a series of metal railings, producing a percussive, sometimes bell-like noise.
Children’s Game #48: A Corda Trailer (2024)
18 April 2024
Each person’s action affects everybody. This fine principle of teamwork applies even when individuals are pulling in different directions.
Fitzroy Square Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Francis Alÿs is filmed by his collaborator Rafael Ortega walking along Fitzroy Square, drumming out rhythms by dragging a wooden stick on the iron railings.
Children’s Game #47: Chalk Trailer (2024)
17 April 2024
Shot in black and white in homage to Helen Levitt, the pioneering photographer of children chalking the streets of Harlem in the late 1930s, this film records individual acts of creation by children from two schools local to the Barbican Centre in London, including students with physical and neurological diversities.
Duett Trailer (1999)
18 July 1999
For the 1999 Venice Biennale, Alÿs created an unofficial performance for the occasion, titled Duett.
Children’s Game #50: Schattenfangen Trailer (2025)
13 April 2025
In order to avoid being tagged, the shadow must run away. Only the body to which the shadow belongs can escape to protect the shadow from the catcher’s evil kick.
The Collector Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
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 metallic residue lying in its path.