Bottega Veneta: Jacob Elordi Stars in Duane Michals' Short Film
Since 2024, Australian actor Jacob Elordi has been a Bottega Veneta brand ambassador, now leading the “What Are Dreams” project—a short film and photographic series created by U.S. artist Duane Michals.
“Shot in black and white at Michals’s home in New York, the project springs from the artist’s deep connection to Surrealism and seeks to explore the unconscious, the imaginary and the uncanny,” the house explained.
Jacob Elordi recites the poem "What Are Dreams," written by Michals (born 1932) and published in his 2001 photobook, Questions Without Answers.
The poem evokes the "midnight movies of the mind... in which things seem familiar, yet not quite the same."
The 12-photograph series captures Elordi in mysterious, poetic scenes, reflecting the style that has defined Michals's work since the 1960s.
Visual elements in the series reference Surrealist artists Michals has long admired, especially Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
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