Senna
An archive-driven portrait of Ayrton Senna that uses racing footage, broadcasts and recorded voices to keep velocity and public pressure in the present tense.
- YEAR
- 2010
- DIRECTOR
- Asif Kapadia
- COUNTRY
- United Kingdom
- LENGTH
- 106 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Motorsport · Documentary
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Ayrton Senna · Alain Prost
Senna in the wider sports-film conversation
Senna is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. Senna became a reference point for biography built largely from existing images rather than explanatory talking heads, making archive selection and sequencing the primary dramatic tools.
Continue through Motorsport, Asif Kapadia, 2010 and United Kingdom. For a closer reading, see Senna Archive Velocity.
Synopsis
An archive-driven portrait of Ayrton Senna that uses racing footage, broadcasts and recorded voices to keep velocity and public pressure in the present tense.
Place in film history
Senna became a reference point for biography built largely from existing images rather than explanatory talking heads, making archive selection and sequencing the primary dramatic tools.