Reel/Unreel Filming Locations

"Reel/Unreel" takes its point of departure in the classic street game in which children keep a wheel in continuous motion with the help of a stick. Yet, in the version of the game presented in "Reel/Unreel", the bicycle wheel is replaced by a film reel. The camera follows two young Afghan boys as they chase the reel rolling down the hills of Kabul, with one boy unrolling the strip of film and leading the way, while another follows him, rewinding it. The title "Reel/Unreel" alludes to the real/unreal image of Afghanistan conveyed by the media in the West: how the Afghan way of life, along with its people, has gradually been dehumanized and, after decades of war, turned into a Western fiction.