00:00Why these two artists in France start sleeping on the most uncomfortable benches in the city?
00:04Because someone had to show the world what was happening.
00:06Across Paris and cities all over the world, public benches are being redesigned not for people, but against them.
00:12Sharp metal dividers, slanted seats, hidden spikes, all of it made to stop homeless people from resting.
00:17This is called hostile architecture.
00:18In 2003, two French artists decided to fight back, not with words, but with actions.
00:23They created a short film called Fakir's Rest.
00:25In it, they lay down on these benches, spiked, freezing, slanted, like Fakirs on a bed of nails.
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