Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait, and What You Want On Your HDTV

On April 23, 2005, some of the best cameramen in all of film converged on a Spanish La Liga match between Real Madrid and Villarreal with 17 high-end cameras—film, and modified HD cameras from Panavision with special zoom capabilities, previously available only to the U.S. military—and trained them all on Zinedine Zidane, the legendary French/Algerian midfielder and he of crazy World Cup headbutt fame. All 93 minutes of the match are captured in real time with the focus never straying from the monk-like Zidane. And it's one of the most beautiful things I've seen on film recently. More »