Synopsis
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
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Edited by Tiziano Sossi
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41 unique people credited
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28Michael Douglas
as Self (archive footage)
Harrison Ford
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Luc Godard
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
Dustin Hoffman
as Self (archive footage)
William Hurt
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Jackson
as Self (archive footage)
Nicole Kidman
as Self (archive footage)
Kevin Kline
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Lewis
as Self (archive footage)
George Lucas
as Self (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni
as Self (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson
as Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck
as Self (archive footage)
Brad Pitt
as Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski
as Self (archive footage)
Vasco Rossi
as Self (archive footage)
Alberto Sordi
as Self (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
Meryl Streep
as Self (archive footage)
John Travolta
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Louis Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
Wim Wenders
as Self (archive footage)
Bruce Willis
as Self (archive footage)
Neil Young
as Self (archive footage)
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