REEL - UNREEL
Kabul, Afghanistan 2011
In Zusammenarbeit mit Julien Devaux und Ajmal Maiwandi
20:00 Min.
Francis Alÿs
* 1959 Antwerpen, Belgien. Lebt in Mexiko-Stadt, Mexiko.
Produced in Afghanistan for dOCUMENTA (13), Alÿs' film REEL - UNREEL (2011) derives from his interest in children's street games, such as the art of rolling a wheel with a stick, which he witnessed in Bamiyan and Kabul. The title alludes to the real/unreal image of Afghanistan conveyed by the media in the West: how the Afghan way of life, along with ist people, has gradually been dehumanized and after decades of war, turned into a Western fiction. Yet "real" turns into "reel" since the object beeing rolled around the undulating streets of Kabul's old town is a reel of film.
(Aus dem Begleitbuch der Documenta 13)
REEL - UNREEL
das komplette Video auf der Website von Francis Alÿs
Am 19. Juni 2012 wurde das Video auf einer zwischen die Brandmauern der Ruine des Kinos Behzad in Kabul gespannten Leinwand aufgeführt, hermetisch abgeschirmt von bewaffneten Sicherheitskräften.