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Zidane’s Damn Weird Ears: Sound Weirs in Cinema
In the year of 2008 I first read about the documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and immediately became interested. What called my attention was the idea of how a portrait can be relevant today and, although the directors Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno don’t answer the question there is an evident search and struggle…
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The digital actor and the emptiness of being
With the possibility of endless repetition also came the possibility to react the same scene over and over until a non-actor can empty his being and fully embody the character for the camera. 10 Abbas Kiarostami No Quarto da Vanda Pedro Costa The same idea but this time applied to the subject of the documentary.…