Bottega Veneta: Jacob Elordi Stars in Duane Michals Short Film
Since 2024, Australian actor Jacob Elordi has been a brand ambassador for Bottega Veneta. He leads the house’s "What Are Dreams" project, consisting of a short film and a photographic series created by Duane Michals.
The project was shot in black and white at Michals’s home in New York and reflects the artist’s deep ties to Surrealism, aiming to explore themes of the unconscious, the imaginary, and the uncanny.
[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 lends the project its title, evokes the "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, poetic environments, characteristic of Michals’s style since the 1960s. The visuals draw inspiration from Surrealist artists admired by Michals, especially Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
Summary: Jacob Elordi embodies Bottega Veneta’s Surrealist-inspired project through a black-and-white film and photo series, reciting Michals's evocative poem and channeling surreal art influences.
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