More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
Editing
Sossi's decade-spanning juxtapositions create accidental narratives.
Cinematography
Unflinching close-ups that border on forensic examination.
Director
Tiziano Sossi
Michelangelo Antonioni
Self (archive footage)
Asia Argento
Self (archive footage)
Dario Argento
Self (archive footage)
Roberto Benigni
Self (archive footage)
Jim Carrey
Self (archive footage)
Eric Clapton
Self (archive footage)
Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Kevin Costner
Self (archive footage)
Tom Cruise
Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve
Self (archive footage)
Robert De Niro
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Depp
Self (archive footage)
Michael Douglas
Self (archive footage)
Harrison Ford
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sossi shot all footage himself while working as a journalist, hiding his artistic intent from festival press offices who assumed he was standard media.
The film premiered in 2012, the same year as Instagram's billion-dollar Facebook acquisition—making its pre-social-media celebrity gaze feel like archaeological evidence of a lost species.
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