Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - The Men Who Stare at Goats - by Nesta Morgan - 8th September 2009

Travel with just your mind, explore the paranormal in The Men Who Stare at Goats where Grant Heslov directs the “super powers” of men who completely believed in what they were doing, like Batman and Robin joke the stars George Clooney and Ewan MacGregor.

When asked if he researched paranormal powers for the movie George Clooney replied "At the premiere I am going to actually walk through a wall," so I cartooned this, “Nice” he said and smiled as he shared the moment with his co-star Ewan MacGregor. Later that day, at The Giardini Art Biennale, by the Russian pavilion, I pass a man sculpted breaking through a wall on a motorbike (an artpiece by Sergei Shekhovtsov), and there goes Clooney I thought.

The Men Who Stare at Goats - Ewan MacGregor shepherds as George Clooney walks through walls

8^th September 2009.

Nesta Morgan