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Children’s Game #2: Ricochets (2007)
Directed by Francis Alÿs
Documentary · 5m
The bay is peaceful, framed by low hills in the distance. Three boys stand thigh-deep in the brown water, trousers rolled up. The biggest, on the left, is proficient in the art of stone-skimming: sending flat pebbles spinning over the water in such a way that they bounce off the surface as many times as possible before sinking. The middle boy feeds him stones from a stockpile inside his t-shirt, while the smallest looks on laughing. The skimmer throws quickly, intently, without thinking, without assessing his stone. Some stones sink at the second bounce; some skip a long way. It’s all the same to him, he must keep throwing.
Crew
- Director
- Francis Alÿs
- Editor
- Julien Devaux
Details
- Release date
- 2007-01-01
- Runtime
- 5m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- Morocco