Caraballo-Farman
2004.
Argentina,
United States of America.
No dialogue
11’
Every Saturday, members of a group called Falun Gong gather in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd street in New York City to protest and meditate. On this Saturday, there was a blizzard. They stayed the whole two hours anyway, unmoved by external forces. In the peaceful faces battered by wind and snow, a combination of superhuman resilience and human folly emerges, a mix of absurdity and heroism, eliciting an uncomfortable reaction: we admire the strength of conviction while being tempted to judge the whole thing as fanatical. But here the struggle against nature has taken over the political struggle.
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