Zeus Machine. The Invincible (2020)

The Zapruder filmmakersgroup tells the never-before-told story of Hercules in twelve vignettes. At petrol stations and roundabouts, in sports halls, sculpture storerooms and at music festivals, we encounter the Greek hero as a distant translation: performances by bodies and machines re-enact scenes from sword-and-sandal films linked to him. In this film, we are confronted with Hercules and the idea of the myth in a manner that is both scattered and compressed: the stories have become unrecognisable and what remains is always the same motif of a fight – against bulldozers, training bags, time, or oneself. Zeus Machine. L’invincible is the document of performances and is as a film itself a performance that sets narrative, documentary and experiment modes in motion to really shake up an old man before picking up the vestiges of him that remain.