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Children’s Game #41: Chapitas (2023)
Directed by Francis Alÿs
Documentary · 4m
Ordinary bottle tops, once flattened, threaded and tensed for spinning, become as sharp as gladiator swords. It’s edge against thrumming edge as the jousters try to slice their opponent’s string by means of feints, angles, and jabs. The players fight in such close proximity that the emotion of each move is magnified in their faces, as if to compensate for the necessary restraint of thrusts and parries – take that, oh no, how about this, oops close one… gotcha!
Crew
- Director
- Francis Alÿs
- Editor
- Julien Devaux
- Producer
- Lisandra Durán Gutierrez, Raudel Hoyo Pérez
Details
- Release date
- 2023-10-13
- Runtime
- 4m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Cuba