Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Gordon/Parreno, 2006, France/Iceland)

L.O.1.To identify the experimental and conventional elements of Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.2.To explore your own personal response to the film.3.To identify the audience and potential exhibition methods and to be able to discuss why this film might require a different form of spectator ship to mainstream film

Starter

• Look at the DVD cover.

• What do you expect the film to be like?

• Why?

Experimental elements

• Watch the film and make notes:

• Identify why it is experimental.• Are there any conventional elements?• Use film key words- look on the display board for

help if you need it.

• Grab a key word from the wall and write a sentence using it that discusses Zidane as an experimental film.

Experimental elements

• Filmed in real time.• Used 17 film cameras dotted around the

stadium.• Focuses on one footballer (Zidane) rather than

the action- we do not follow the ball.• Cross between football

coverage/documentary/work of art• 21st Century Portrait – what does this mean?

Audience/Exhibition

• Who do you think the audience would be?• Why?

• Where do you think this would be exhibited?• Why?

Douglas Gordon’s other work• Douglas Gordon is an artist who uses

film/video/photography as his medium.• Another notable and very interesting

project is Twenty Four Hour Psycho (Gordon, 1993, UK)

• He took Psycho (Hitchcock, US, 1960) and slowed it down so that it lasts 24 hours.

• Audiences see the film as a very slowly moving series of iconic images.

• They can arrive and leave when they like- they do not have to watch the whole thing!

Douglas Gordon

• http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,,818576,00.html

Plenary

• Create a mindmap summarising all you have learned today about Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait.– Experimental elements– Conventional elements– Spectatorship (Audience/exhibition/response) Make

sure you write down your particular responses e.g. Veejay - “watching it the second time I can really appreciate the experimental elements” and Romeo “I got lost in the film, no score or time…”

– How does it link with other films that we have studied?

Plenary 2…

• We have now watched all the films we are going to study together for Experimental and Expanded film/video.

• Jot down each film and its reference.

Homework

• Look at the questions that I will send you.• Choose one and answer it.

• Due Jan 11th.

• Revision for your FM2 exam (which is on 12th Jan!!!!!!)