I Yam What I Yam... The Invention (2013)
I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.
Director: Peter Sant
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Emanuel Cutajar as Main character |
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Ana-Maria Grosu as Olive Oyl |
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Theodore Zammit as Popeye |
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Gaetano Zauri as Bluto |
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Daniel Casingena as Popeye #2 |
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Colin Magro as Village worker |
| Directing | Peter Sant | Director |
| Camera | Suzie Lavelle | Director of Photography |
| Production | Peter Sant | Producer |
| Writing | Peter Sant | Writer |
