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Portrait of a Legend
More than a year before he was expelled from the 2006 World Cup final for head-butting an opponent, Zinédine Zidane was red-carded at a less prominent game, when he was playing for Real Madrid. Given Zidane's mercurial nature on the field, such penalties were not uncommon, but this particular incident marked a first: 17 of the cameras trained on him were manned by an international team of skilled operators under the supervision of Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC.
The project at hand was Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, a most unusual collaboration between Khondji and conceptual-video artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, who co-directed. The film presents in real time Zidane's performance in an April 23,2005, match a...See the full content of this document
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