I Yam What I Yam... The Invention

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Emanuel Cutajar

Main character

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Ana-Maria Grosu

Olive Oyl

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Theodore Zammit

Popeye

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Gaetano Zauri

Bluto

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Daniel Casingena

Popeye #2

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Colin Magro

Village worker

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Peter Sant
Writing	Writer	Peter Sant
Production	Producer	Peter Sant
Camera	Director of Photography	Suzie Lavelle
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