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 “What Are Dreams” project, a short film and photographic series by U.S. artist Duane Michals.
The project was
Shot in black and white at Michals’s home in New York. It stems from the artist’s strong connection to Surrealism and aims to explore the unconscious, the imaginary, and the uncanny.
In the short film, Elordi recites a poem titled
"What Are Dreams,"written by Michals, born in 1932, and originally published in 2001 in his photobook
"Questions Without Answers."The poem inspires the project’s name and conjures the idea of
"midnight movies of the mind... in which things seem familiar, yet not quite the same."
The 12-photograph series captures Elordi in mysterious and poetic settings, reflecting the style that has defined Michals’s work since the 1960s. Some visuals reference Surrealist artists the photographer admires, especially Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
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Jacob Elordi features in Bottega Veneta’s surreal "What Are Dreams" project by Duane Michals, blending mystique with poetic exploration of the unconscious.