- takes place in Peru
- man is planing for a mission which took over 2 years to do
- documenting people involved in this mission of trying to gather 500 people to move this doon of sand
- a line of people, that looks likes miles, are lined up shoveling and moving sand
- when they were getting closer and closer to the end, everyone shovels harder
- Alys doesnt want to use video as a way of art, just as a way to show what is actually happening (no editing)
- people thought we was crazy at first to want to "move mountains"
- tape measure actually shown measuring the doon
- goal was to move doon 10cm
Gaby: "Paradox In Praxis (1997)" by Francis Alys
- "sometimes making something leads to nothing"
- sound is diegetic
- the mans attitude towards moving the ice, the task at hand, changes with time ending in a nonchalant eventual completion of the pointless motion
- the children at the end was very random
- the block of ice left a trail of moisture to represent its existence, but that emphasis was very momentary because moisture evaporates to leave no trace at all.
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