Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself

Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself (2020), directed by Frank Oz, is available to watch online on iFILM. The film captures DelGaudio's acclaimed one-man stage show as it ran off-Broadway over two years, shot live with an actual audience inside the theatre.

Each night, ticket holders chose a card from hundreds that began "I am a..." At some point in the performance, DelGaudio would call out the one they held. No explanation came with it. The show is built around this: not the trick itself, but the question it forces — who do you think you are, and how much of that is real? Marina Abramović, Bill Gates, and David Blaine were among the audience members caught on camera.

What Frank Oz recorded is something closer to an essay than a concert film. Watch In & of Itself online on iFILM.