I Yam What I Yam The Invention

I Yam What I YamLinvenzione is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location Emidio Grecos Linvenzione di Morel 1974 and Robert Altmans Popeye 1980 In Grecos film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultramodernist mansion In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine thats capable of reproducing reality Sants 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 Altmans Popeye Though there is no trace of Grecos set Altmans Sweethaven remains echoing Grecos plot by existing as an openair museum where costumed entertainers reenact scenes