Dennis Hopper Self Portrait.mov
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Self-Portrait: Dennis Hopper is the pilot of a series I developed with Dennis. We met in Los Angeles after an opening of my productions, the Robert Wilson Video Portraits, and he expressed a desire to do portraits in video as well. He had strong ideas about extending his vérité photographic style into motion – the results would have been as groundbreaking as Bob Wilson’s. We completed one piece, an autobiography produced in his home studio. In it Dennis recites the Rudyard Kipling poem, If, and it gives deep insight into how Dennis saw himself.
Duration : 0:2:22
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