Bottega Veneta: Jacob Elordi stars in Duane Michals short film
Since 2024, Australian actor Jacob Elordi has been a Bottega Veneta brand ambassador. He leads the house’s [translate:"What Are Dreams"] project, which includes a short film and a photographic series by U.S. artist Duane Michals.
The project was shot in black and white at Michals’s home in New York. It draws on the artist’s profound connection to Surrealism and aims to explore themes of the unconscious, the imaginary, and the uncanny, as explained by the house.
[translate:"In the short film, Elordi recites the poem 'What Are Dreams', written by Michals, born in 1932, and published in 2001 in his photobook, 'Questions Without Answers'."]
The poem, which gives the project its title, describes the [translate:"midnight movies of the mind... in which things seem familiar, yet not quite the same."]
The photographic series includes 12 images portraying Elordi in mysterious and poetic scenes, consistent with the style that brought fame to Michals since the 1960s. The visuals pay homage to Surrealist artists Michals has long admired, especially Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
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Author's summary: Jacob Elordi embodies surreal poetic themes in Bottega Veneta’s project with Duane Michals, blending dreams and mysterious imagery in black-and-white film and photography.