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Learn about this artwork by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno in the Guggenheim's Collection Online.
2006 (2006) Running time. 91 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (French: Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) is a 2006 French documentary film focusing on the playing style of the French football player Zinedine Zidane.
Print OCTOBER 2024. Cover: Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, 2006, still from a color video, 90 minutes. Artists have long navigated the visual territory shared by art and cinema, but few have brought these spheres together as grandly as DOUGLAS GORDON and PHILIPPE PARRENO in their Zidane,….
In Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Gordon, working with the French artist and film-maker Philippe Parreno, again disrupts our expectations, transforming the relatively ordinary experience of a football match in the Spanish league into a powerful and theatrical portrait of a celebrated sportsman. Gordon and Parreno positioned seventeen synchronised film cameras around the Santiago ...
Sep 25, 2006 · Ultimately, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is football as art installation. Flipping convention on its head, this picture takes one ordinary league match: Real Madrid vs Villareal and trains no ...
May 23, 2006 · First collaboration between Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno studies French superstar Zinedine Zidane closely during an ordinary league match, capturing in process his extraordinary skill and ...
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait creates a real-time, far-reaching look at one of the greatest soccer players of the century: Zinédine Zidane. Our take Zidane is a stunning documentary endeavor: shot with 17 synchronized cameras (some film, some digital), the film stands as both an action movie and portrait of a world-class athlete. 21st century indeed, and not just for soccer fans.