Photo Coverage: Lady Gaga Attends TIFF Premiere of New Documentary GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO
By: Walter McBride Sep. 15, 2017
Music icon Lady Gaga graced the red carpet at the premiere of GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO at this week's Toronto Film Festival. Check out photos below! Musician, activist, experimenter, icon - Lady Gaga has stamped her mark on global pop culture in one short, tumultuous decade. She fused a whole range of club music with glam rock and pop to create a sound entirely her own. She wore fashion, glamour, and fame as a self-aware performance instead of a trap. She confessed her own traumas, inspiring countless marginalized young people to speak their gender, their sexuality, their identities proudly. But like many who live in the spotlight, Gaga's very exposure can obscure the full person. Who exactly is she?
Gaga 5'2" is the closest, most intimate look yet inside the world of Stefani Joanne Germanotta. Director Chris Moukarbel follows the artist as she recovers from the mixed reviews that greeted her Artpop album and faces deadlines to deliver its 2016 follow-up, Joanne. Having just turned 30, she is in a reflective mood, looking back on her dazzling flurry of work and image shifts, and trying to find a new definition for herself. But the physical demands of constant performance and the self-imposed stress of hitting the highest standard night after night take their toll. As Gaga begins the writing and recording that will result in a finished album, one of the film's most illuminating insights is the regimen of care it takes to maintain this remarkable woman at her peak.
In brief moments of studio downtime, Gaga reflects on some the controversies that still swirl around her: her relationship with Madonna, her forays into politics, her tightrope walk between being object and subject in her own career. Gaga is nothing if not self-aware, speaking frankly and with deep insight into navigating the music industry as someone too often seen simply as a "hot woman."
Gaga 5'2" offers unprecedented insight into Lady Gaga's creative process. Immediately after the screening, she will extend that insight, live on stage.
Lady Gaga fans Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 8, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
Lady Gaga fans
Lady Gaga fans
Chris Moukarbel
Chris Moukarbel
Lady Gaga Arrival
Lady Gaga Premiere during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 8, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
Chris Moukarbel
Chris Moukarbel
Lady Gaga, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
Lady Gaga of Wales Theatre on September 8, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
Lady Gaga and Chris Moukarbel
Lady Gaga and Chris Moukarbel Premiere during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 8, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.
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