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The film was shot over several seasons. A period of time during which Donata Wenders was able to work, concentrating her photography mostly on lead actor James Franco. James Franco played the role of a writer, and in between scenes he reads, constantly.
Donata followed him everywhere and never stopped photographing Franco, which in the end resulted in the series: “James reading – Reading James”. A visual dialogue between the photographer and the actor, a cryptic get-together simultaneously intimate and distant: James would read and Donata would read James. This short-film – in which …