Bottega Veneta: Jacob Elordi stars in Duane Michals short film
Australian actor Jacob Elordi, a Bottega Veneta brand ambassador since 2024, leads the house’s “What Are Dreams” project. This work includes a short film and a series of photographs by U.S. photographer Duane Michals.
The project was filmed in black and white at Michals’s home in New York. It reflects the artist’s profound connection to Surrealism and explores themes of the unconscious, the imaginary, and the uncanny, according to the fashion house.
“What Are Dreams”, a poem written by Michals and published in 2001 in his photobook Questions Without Answers, is recited by Elordi in the film.
The poem evokes “midnight movies of the mind... in which things seem familiar, yet not quite the same.”
The accompanying 12-photograph series presents Elordi in mysterious, poetic scenes consistent with Michals’s signature style developed since the 1960s. The visuals include nods to Surrealist artists Michals admires, especially Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
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Summary: Jacob Elordi stars in a surreal black-and-white project by Duane Michals for Bottega Veneta, combining poetry and evocative imagery that revisits classic Surrealist influences.
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