The Football Hunters performance - Eicher truck - metal wire - punctured footballs - India - 2006

The Football Hunters is an indian art project and a film documentary of the italian artist, film maker and "Football Hunter" Paolo W. Tamburella.
P.W. Tamburella and three misterious Indian Football Hunters travelled across India hunting old, punctured and consumed footballs. In a country more and more devoted to cricket finding footballs wasn`t an easy task. A surreal search for hidden footballs became a way to explore India and to portrait many different aspects of the biggest democracy in the world..
Filmed between flooded football fields, grounds used to breed cows and goats, to host military parades or "infamous" cricket games The Football Hunters is a pilgrimage through India that terminates , after 30 days and more then 4.400km, in Kolkata "The indian capital of Football".
The collected footballs stitched together in Kolkata by 11 indian cobblers became Kalpantukali