Zidance: A 21st Century Portrait presents a different approach to the sports film, creating a real time portrait and a far reaching, in-depth film, focusing on one of the greatest soccer players of the century: Zinedine Zidane. During the entire 92 minutes of a Real Madrid vs. Villarreal match, seventeen super-35mm Scope format cameras were set around the Bernabeu Stadium focusing solely on Zidane, who agreed to become the centre of attention for this out-of-the-ordinary, full-length feature film.In this film, the viewers are plunged into all facets of the universe, the psychology and the body of an athlete in action - an incomparable and breathtaking experience.
The team behind the seventeen cameras include operators who have worked in film with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone, as well as some of the world's top sports camera operators including those that work for NFL Films and Major League Baseball. Additionally, two of the cameras where equipped with high definition zooms used only by the US Army until this film.
Filmed during a Real Madrid match (versus Villareal on April 23 2005) in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, it's 92-minute length equals exactly that of the actual game, but contrary to traditional television broadcasts, it is not the ball which is the focal point of the action. Instead, 17 synchronised cameras distributed around the entire stadium are directed solely on Zidane...'It all started exactly nine years ago, in 1996. It started in Jerusalem. It was Haifa. I can't remember exactly the genesis of the thing, but we were playing football, we talked about football and after that we'd email about football, and if I was in Paris it just so
happened that whenever I'd come to Paris there were amazing games. Before 1998, we had already decided we wanted to do something. We made a decision to do something with Zidane, I'd say in 1997.' - Douglas Gordon
'The day of the shooting, some interviews of the players of the opposing team were published, they said that they would do everything they could to keep Zidane from playing a good game, so that we wouldn't have much to film. So in a way, the fact that we were shooting influenced the event, and that was slightly traumatizing'- Philippe Parreno.
The affecting soundtrack includes the roar of the crowd accompanied by Mogwai, the Scottish band formed in 1995, who have become one of the most influential post-rock bands.
It's a footballer and football, as you have never seen them before…
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