Sportin’ Life

Sportin’ Life is a documentary by Abel Ferrara in which the director takes a look inwards, into the sources of his self-expression, his creativity, his essence as an artist. His life and his world are seen  through his art, through music and filmmaking, his early works, through his collaborators and artistic partners such as Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia and Paul Hipp. As he documents his experience of the premiere of Siberia (2020) at the Berlinale and the Coronavirus outbreak, Ferrara says: “the subject of my new documentary is the relationship I have to my work, to Willem Dafoe, and my music and art – these relationships are the starting point and I could not avoid facing what the world went through this year with the pandemic.”