Parreno + Gordon = Zidane. A 21st-century masterpiece

On 23 April 2005 two visual artists, the British Douglas Gordon (born in 1966)  and the French Philippe Parreno (born in 1964) joined forces to make a film about the Marseille athlete filmed in real time in Madrid during a match between two Spanish teams, Real Madrid, Zidane’s team at the time, and Villareal. The idea involved placing no less than 17 cameras around the stadium. They followed the player, not the ball. At the time this produced a film that premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2006 and was then shown in cinemas.