Zidane: A Twenty-First Century Portrait

Zidane: A Twenty-First Century Portrait by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno (France, 2006, 93 min.). A hybrid of sports documentary and conceptual art installation, Zidane includes a full-length soccer game between Real Madrid and Villareal (April 23, 2005) filmed entirely from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinédine Zidane. Using seventeen cameras, the filmmakers capture Zidane's aggression and skill, rarely straying from anything other than Zidane's body. "To see everything boiled down to one man's stillness and movement is a transcendentalist high, a concentrated dose of poetry in motion" (David Fear, Time Out New York).
MFA
Location: Remis Auditorium