Filmed in Ramallah in 2004 during the Second Intifada,
they shoot horses is a video installation
that follows an eight-hour dance marathon,
as time stretches until it becomes a physical and political ordeal.
Today, as violence against the Palestinian population is consumed in real time on global screens and reduced to statistical figures, the bodies at the center of they shoot horses reassert themselves as irreducible presences.
Not numbers, not masses, but singular lives that demand to be seen, remembered, and recognized.
Between ritual gesture and exhaustion, voice and silence, this evening shapes Hello Darkness as a descent into a zone where darkness is not only annihilation, but a fragile space of resistance, imagination, and political possibility.
they shoot horses
dance and rituals of resistance:
a disco dance marathon by Phil Collins
is part of Hello Darkness 2026
BASE’s public program: a project of research, experimentation, and cultural production that invites us to consider darkness as a fertile space for possibility, relationship, and transformation.
Through a rich and layered calendar of events, performances, talks, participatory practices, and listening sessions, HELLO DARKNESS brings visual arts, design, music, theory, technologies, and community practices into dialogue, positioning itself as an open public space capable of welcoming artists, researchers, and communities experimenting with alternative forms of cultural production.