they shoot horses
Presented by Light Moves Festival
Phil Collins | 2004 | Courtesy Shady Lane Productions, Berlin
they shoot horses depicts a disco dance marathon Collins organised more than two decades ago with a group of young people from Ramallah in Palestine. Filmed continuously over the course of eight hours, the dancers move through unfolding emotional and physical states – elation, joy, fatigue, exhaustion, and endurance – set to a soundtrack of pop, rock and dance hits from the 1960s onwards.
This presentation is an event held in solidarity with the people of Palestine, raising donations to support Palestinian civil society. Visit lightmoves.ie for more info.
they shoot horses
Speaking to both the hardships and the resilience of living under the decades-long illegal occupation by the state of Israel, they shoot horses centres dancing as an act of resistance in the face of daily atrocities, and as a fragile yet inextinguishable anticipation of liberation to come.
T&Cs
- This is a free, drop-in event.
- On-street parking.