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Children’s Game #44: Uárhukua (2024)
Directed by Francis Alÿs
Documentary · 7m
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. The burning ball represents humanity. The gods play to win that humanity. The game is an oracle: if the kind gods win, those of the daylight, there will be rain or good weather and a good corn harvest. If the malicious gods win, those of the darkness, there will be droughts, storms and a bad harvest.
Crew
- Director
- Francis Alÿs
- Editor
- Julien Devaux
Details
- Release date
- 2024-04-14
- Runtime
- 7m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico