User:Inge Hoonte/Machine Part No.3
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In Cuentas Partióticos (Patriotic Tales), Francis Alÿs walks around in circles, and in circles, and in circles, at times seeming to herd sheep, at other times seeming to follow them.
Shot in black and white, Patriotic Tales is bizarrely hypnotic. And though it has the utmost significance for Mexicans – the scene is Madre Patria, the flag in the central square of Mexico City, where civil servants were forced to congregate in 1968 to welcome the new government and broke out in mocking sheep bleats instead – it strikes at something darkly comic in our universal following, flocking and gathering.
