Close Up

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.

Michelangelo Antonioni

(Self (archive footage))

Asia Argento

(Self (archive footage))

Dario Argento

(Self (archive footage))

Roberto Benigni

(Self (archive footage))

Jim Carrey

(Self (archive footage))

Eric Clapton

(Self (archive footage))

Sean Connery

(Self (archive footage))

Kevin Costner

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Cruise

(Self (archive footage))

Catherine Deneuve

(Self (archive footage))

Robert De Niro

(Self (archive footage))

Johnny Depp

(Self (archive footage))

Michael Douglas

(Self (archive footage))

Harrison Ford

(Self (archive footage))

Vittorio Gassman

(Self (archive footage))

Jean-Luc Godard

(Self (archive footage))

Tom Hanks

(Self (archive footage))

Werner Herzog

(Self (archive footage))

Dustin Hoffman

(Self (archive footage))

William Hurt

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Jackson

(Self (archive footage))

Nicole Kidman

(Self (archive footage))

Kevin Kline

(Self (archive footage))

Jerry Lewis

(Self (archive footage))

George Lucas

(Self (archive footage))

Marcello Mastroianni

(Self (archive footage))

Jeanne Moreau

(Self (archive footage))

Jack Nicholson

(Self (archive footage))

Gregory Peck

(Self (archive footage))

Brad Pitt

(Self (archive footage))

Roman Polanski

(Self (archive footage))

Vasco Rossi

(Self (archive footage))

Alberto Sordi

(Self (archive footage))

Steven Spielberg

(Self (archive footage))

Meryl Streep

(Self (archive footage))

John Travolta

(Self (archive footage))

Jean-Louis Trintignant

(Self (archive footage))

Wim Wenders

(Self (archive footage))

Bruce Willis

(Self (archive footage))

Neil Young

(Self (archive footage))