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Article: EXPOSED.(Sofia Coppola)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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[Sofia Coppola] grew up in films, but it wasn't until she stepped behind the lens as a director that she discovered how much of herself the camera can reveal
SOFIA COPPOLA IS AT AN ART GALLERY in Chelsea, checking out a video installation by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. The video is a cubist evocation of a cocktail party, mesmerizing for its fragmentation--multiple points of view on five different screens. On one screen, a girl dances by herself, deep in a groove, swinging her long hair, her long arms, lost to the world. Sofia is immediately into it. Far more visual than verbal, she watches, rapt. "That girl," Sofia says, still staring at the screen, "is ...