Maximum Effort, Minimum Result
2002 · 0h 15m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
Alÿs’s motto for When Faith Moves Mountains is “Maximum effort, minimum result.” For this epic project the artist invited five hundred volunteers to walk up a sand dune on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, shoveling in unison, thus displacing the dune by a few inches.
Director: Francis Alÿs
Writers: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Rafael Ortega, Francis Alÿs
Editor: Francis Alÿs