🏴If you are not watching the world cup you may have noticed it watching you (as Jacques Lacan might say).

So for obvs reasons:

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006)

TV was important to me as a kid for thinking and daydreaming. It was always on with nothing on, so you watched nothing without the control to choose what nothing to watch. So you daydreamed while watching. Sometimes something would come on. Sometimes you would watch nothing waiting for something to come. Sometimes you watched the noise or roll of an out of tune TV. Sometimes you would notice your reflection in the noise and roll and keep watching for what felt like forever.

Gordon and Philippe Parenno’s 90-minutes film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) elicits these nothing days from my childhood, when thinking and daydreaming, not just looking, was a thing.

Philippe Parenno: “The principle of reading can be important in looking at a work of art. The idea is to read rather than to contemplate, to be active in front of the work. The best stories are those that one has in the head, not those we are given to see. This film is an aid for this kind of daydreaming.”🏴