Make it Big( 2002 ) by Shezad Dawood is a similar exploration of
myth. Dawood traveled to Karachi to attempt a Pakistani remake of
Antonioni’sBlow-up.^13 Shooting began in the former colonial film studio
on the outskirts of the city. He played the part of the photographer
himself, recruited the country’s top models and actresses, hired the
best hair and make-up artist and commissioned the legendary Faiz Rahi
to hand paint designs for the film poster. An inveterate storyteller,
Dawood has recounted that the shoot did not go well and was eventually
abandoned. On returning to London the rushes were lost and all that
remains of the whole enterprise is a clutch of production stills and
poster designs.
Many film companies have retained at least some parts of their
archives. In the mid- 1990 s the artist John Divola visited the holdings 131
opposite: 112 John Stezaker,Film Portrait
(She)VIII, 2005.
113 Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye,
pages fromThe Fae Richards Photo
Archive(San Francisco, 1996).