Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Artists using tourism: Pierre Huyghe


The Third Memory (1999)

Real-life "Dog Day Afternoon" bank robber John Wojtowicz re-enacts the crime which made him famous. Fact, fiction, and memory collide and merge as the re-enactment scenes, scenes from the Hollywood movie, and television news footage of the original robbery are interwoven.
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In other words, this piece takes you through a tour of the real story behind the film Dog Day afternoon, which is about the actual 1972 event. 

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