01.01.07 - News

Starck vs. Starck

How to portray a man who refuses to be talked about?
It is a challenge taken on by the director Vassili Silovic in the program Empreintes deticated to Philippe Starck.
For this shooting, the creator established certain conditions: to not evoke his past or his professional career path, to not talk about design and to not show his work. But to explore his mind, express the shadow…

Philippe Starck has found a fresh angle: work on his ideal portrait. “Ladies and Gentalmen, hello. My name is Philippe Starck. I am a nice boy, although old and too fat. There are people, not knowing what to do, want to produce films about uninteresting people to show them to people that don’t care. This film should not even exist given that it is a film about someone who does not want to be filmed. What I would like is, instead of making a film about the portrait of Philippe Starck, his life, his work, his projects, would be to scan his brain; that is to say, to go look at what happens inside. It’s that or nothing…”

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