Zidane film to screen at New York’s Guggenheim this summer | OneFootball

New York’s Guggenheim will screen Portrait du XXIe siècle from 11 June to 19 July, coinciding with the World Cup. Two decades on from its release, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s film fixes 17 cameras on Zinédine Zidane for the duration of Real Madrid’s meeting with Villarreal at Santiago-Bernabeu in spring 2005.

According to L'Équipe, the museum acquired the work in its release year and is bringing it back as the tournament returns to the USA. Zidane did not finish his career there, but American audiences will finally be able to study him up close.

Parreno later explained that they showed Zidane archive footage of Garrincha, Pelé and Maradona and spoke about how, as children, viewers would edge closer to the television to follow their hero for as long as possible. The film aims to capture exactly that feeling.

Exhibition curator Nat Trotman describes the installation as immersing visitors in football and offering a glimpse of an athlete’s psychology and physical experience in action.

Screenings will take place in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, a space dedicated to experimental cinema, with the work projected on two screens. Gordon and Parreno have always framed the portrait as something that evolves depending on its presentation. The Mogwai soundtrack is integral, and there is even an unexpected twist, which we will leave unspoiled from that 2005 match.

Source: L'Équipe