Films

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Friday, June 26
6 pm, Steinberg Hall Auditorium

In conjunction with Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat, the Kemper Art Museum is screening the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) by Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno. Lutz Koepnick will present a brief introduction before the screening.

From the New York Times review: "You learn little by way of hard facts about the adored French soccer star and famous head-butter Zinédine Zidane in the formalist exercise that bears his name. But after 90 absorbing minutes watching him walking and running across a field in Zidane, dripping and pouring sweat, inscrutably staring into space and the breathing, cheering wall of humanity circling him, and leaping and twisting into the air to guide the ball toward victory, he will seem more expressively human, less of an aesthetic conceit and more of a man, than he does at the start of this self-described '21st Century Portrait.' " read more >>

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