Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.
Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither if I last in this service you must case me in leather.
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Errors (1592, Act II)
Refait is a meticulous remake of the last faze of a football WorldCup match between France and Germany. Every aspect of the last fifteen minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed: players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting.
The sheer pointlessness of it all is hilarious.
(France vs Germany, Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France).