Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended: At Home (Episode 1)
In this first episode of the seven-part film collaboration between award-winning director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Private Idaho, Elephant) and Alessandro Michele, Gucci Creative Director, we follow the lead Silvia during her eccentric morning routine on Roma, which includes a scene in which, to the rhythm of a Billie Eilish song, she throws a dress from the balcony (from the first Gucci show by Alessandro Michele, from the Fall Winter 2015 women's line). Silvia is seen going through the mail, which includes colorful Gucci show invitations as well as a mysterious brochure, and then is distracted by a television talk by writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado until an unexpected visitor arrives. At the same time, in another room, a music group rehearses a song that Kim Gordon wrote for this miniseries.
Gus Van Sant
Director
Alessandro Michele
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Gus Van Sant
Unused footage from Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho is re-contextualized in James Franco's tribute to River Phoenix.
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad, and separately made his own short film; one that feels complete in and unto itself.
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with a friend who offers encouragement. As the dancers warmup and get into costume, she performs on the stage where she encounters faces both fresh and familiar. A group warmup exercise takes an elemental turn.
Part of the film "8", Gus Van Sant delivers a film on child health. S
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
Also Directed by Alessandro Michele
Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with a friend who offers encouragement. As the dancers warmup and get into costume, she performs on the stage where she encounters faces both fresh and familiar. A group warmup exercise takes an elemental turn.
Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with a friend who offers encouragement. As the dancers warmup and get into costume, she performs on the stage where she encounters faces both fresh and familiar. A group warmup exercise takes an elemental turn.
On an errand to the post office to send a postacard, Silvia's day continues to unfurl in unanticipated directions. Idly eavesdropping on conversations in the line of unusually well-dressed customers, she begins to focus intently on the participants of an intriguing phone call, including an elegant gentleman, in an artful blurring of the boundaries between reality and reverie.
In this second episode directed by Gus Van Sant and Alessandro Michele, we follow Silvia to the neighborhood café, where she meets a friend, played by Arlo Parks, the musician and poet from London. They have a meandering conversation until realising they are surrounded by others in a variety of surreal situations. Silvia’s companion leaves to head off on a sightseeing trip around Rome in a car with some friends. The return of the mysterious flyer sets in motion a journey inside a world where all is not as it seems.
Follows Gucci's new collection presentation.
On an errand to the post office to send a postacard, Silvia's day continues to unfurl in unanticipated directions. Idly eavesdropping on conversations in the line of unusually well-dressed customers, she begins to focus intently on the participants of an intriguing phone call, including an elegant gentleman, in an artful blurring of the boundaries between reality and reverie.
We return to the apartment where the day began, but this time meet characters in the homes surrounding, gaining a voyeuristic view into their lives, fantasies and unguarded private moments. These vignettes captured through the frames of the windows ultimately combine into a reversal of perspective, as Silvia once more takes centre stage.
