Saturday, July 24, 2010

Philippe Pareno & Douglas Gordon: Zidane, a Twenty-First Century Portrait (2006)


35mm film (color, sound) 92 min. France

"A unique portrait of one of the greatest players in the history of soccer, Zinédine Zidane. Seventeen synchronized 35mm and HD cameras were used, each focusing on Zidane in real time, from the first kick of the ball to the moment he was given a red card and ejected from the game. The match, between Real Madrid (Zidane’s team) and Villareal, played on April 23, 2005, in Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium, was witnessed by eighty thousand fans." (Films for Out of Time: A Contemporary View, 2006)

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