DIANE PERNET - A Shaded View on Fashion Film

DIANE PERNET
PRESENTS
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
ANSOKUNOBASYO by OHTA MASATAKA
These days I feel the importance of “home”.
The “home” means not only a place, but also peaceful surrounding and warm
feeling around us. It exists as many as their ways of life. This image presents
the process to be there.
2’46 / 2010 / JAPAN / CAST: Christiano/ ANIMATION DIRECTOR: Akinori Okada
/ANIMATION PHOTOGRAPHER: Jyunpei Kagawa
DIRECTOR BIO
OHTA MASATAKA is a fashion designer who established his label in 2007.
In the same year he was a finalist in the fesitval d’Hyeres. Prior to that he
established his label “soak” in 1999.
ANYTIME SOON by JEAN CLAUDE THIBAUT
A film director is suffering from looking for a hidden treasure : «the ideal
woman». This Man is searching for balance: between reality and idealism, the
sensual and the intellectual, the sense of touch and the sense of sight. He cannot etablish a link between the woman of film and the ones he meets off screen
in real life. He should say where one began the other has ended.
4’34’’ / 2010 / FRANCE/HONG KONG / CAST: Shawn Yue, Cara G/ DP:Jean
Caude Thibaut/Raymond am /MUSIC: Bei Bei & Shawn Lee / STYLIST: Jean
Paul Gaultieer, Veronique Nichanian/MAKEUP: Jenny Tziong (Shawn Youe),
gricha (Cara G) / HAIR: Ben Yeung (Shawn Yue) / Gricha (Cara G)
DIRECTOR BIO
Thibaut explores and defines his particular fascination with women, but also
his wider response to people, places, history and situations. His style combines
chic seduction with sexual shock-tactics and embraces the glamour and twists
seen in his portraits of the beautiful, the talented and the notorious.
ARMAGEDDON 1 & 2 l’05 by Frode & Marcus
A motion study by Frode & Marcus for TestMag
1:05 & 1:06 / 2010 / SWEDEN / CAST: Christiano/ DP: Marcus Palmqvist &
Frode Fjerdingstad /MUSIC: Lykke Li & Roll The Dice / AD: Frode Fjerdingstad
& Marcus Palmqvist/STYLIST: Sahara Widoff & Naomi Itkes/MAKEUP: Oliver
Andersson
DIRECTOR BIO
Frode & Marcus capture raw, sometimes slick, sometimes grainy or distorted
images, and they apply a sprawling edit. Frequently overlaid with electronic
soundtracks, further agitating the nerves. It all adds up to an internal commentary that hails the unseen, existential, fear of the everyday: a sick but facepainted society.
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MDVANIISM by Billy Boy• & LALA
Mdvanii dolls from the classic period of 1989-1993 wear classic haute couture
looks, in a doll’s house designed by Jacques Grange (for YSL). Posed as if in
a series of classic fashion shootings, this video is a homage to Mr. Yves Saint
Laurent who influenced Billyboy* as a child to make fashion and dolls. In this
video Billyboy* & Lala compose a languid impressionistic view of Fashion. Music Written, composed and sung by Lala.
4’23 / 2010 / SWITZERLAND
DIRECTOR BIO
Artists Billyboy* & Lala have been loving each other and creating art together
for 28 years and the couple will be married this year in Switzerland.
BLUE BELL SPRING/SUMMER 2010 0’34 by Petrovsky & Ramone
Click and drag, or rather click and toss, became the keywords for the Blue Bell
spring/summer collection 2010. We wanted to take the way of showcasing a
collection one step further so we put the visitor in control of the model. He can
be pushed, shoved and dragged around – you can even rip his clothes off. Intuitive, playful and unexpected.
0:34 / 2010 / SWEDEN / PROD: Kokokaka / MUSIC: Markus Hasseblom/Kokokaka / DP: Axel Lindahl / CAST: Tony Ward
DIRECTOR BIO
Have used Arabia, Africa, Europe and the USA as decor for their staged work,
which captures a unique, raw and eccentric yet elegant world full of atmosphere that is caught in a participating and almost documentary style.
CHAPTER 14 THE DREAM OF THE DISEMBODIED BIRDS by Andrea Splisgar
Borrowing elements from over 60 films, Chapter 14 performs a tribute to all
imagery and sound in film history that has left signs in one’s memory, inspired
one’s own artistic language and fueled one’s own imagination. Jean-Luc Godard
said: It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to!’
5’/ 2010 / GERMANY / PRODUCTION CO: Der Mondane Tiger / CAST: Andrea
Splisgar Mads Dinesen / VIDEO PRODUCTION: Mario Morleo/centralVISION /
STAGE TECHNIQUE: hans. h. / SET PHOTOGRAPHY: Marc Rader
DIRECTOR BIO
Andrea Splisgar is a performer, narrative artist, photographer, filmmaker,
writer and storyteller. Her work consists in a combination of the Medias and
arts. The tales, figures and creatures developed by her are often embossed
from the traditions of fantastic film and surrealistic literature. Andrea Splisgar
lives and works mainly in Berlin.
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CHORE FOR DAMARIS by Justin Anderson
A girl gets up in the morning and does her household chores in her underwear.
2’44 / UK / 2010 / PRODUCER: Dougal Meese, Luke Tilbury/DP: Alessandro
Scherillo/Costume Designer: Rebecca Rich/CAST: Lauren Mcavoy/MUSIC:
Pete Diggens
DIRECTOR BIO
Justin Anderson is an independent filmmaker, working in art, fashion and commercials.
CITY LIMITS by Kris Moyes
Katherine Bowden, a wealthy business woman with a strong desire to stay
on top, learns that her greedy financial adviser and lover Egg has conspired
against her. Her world imploded, Katherine seeks revenge on the man she once
trusted and loved.
9’38” / 2010 / AUSTRAILIA / CAST: Tania Gacic as Katherine Bowden & Matthew
Charleston as Egg / MAKE-UP: Natasha Severino / HAIR:Lores Giglio/ STYLIST:
Jolyon Mason for Romance Was Born/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Chris Tomkins/
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Danny Ruhlmann
DIRECTOR BIO
Kris Moyes graduated in 2000 with a Degree in Fine Arts at the College of Fine
Arts, Sydney. From 2006 he became popular for his internationally acclaimed
music videos for Sia, Beck, The Presets, Hercules and Love Affair and The
Softlightes. In 2007 he became represented by Revolver in Australia and Les
Telecreateurs in Paris. Now Kris spends his time oscillating between international art exhibitions and commercials.
DEPORTEES – WHEN THEY COME by Erik Liss
A bored teenage girl walks around her small town during festivities.
4’19” / 2009/ SWEDEN / PROD: Carl Kristoffersson/ DP: Axel Lindahl /Adamsky
/CAST:Rakel Lindgren/MUSIC: The Deportees
DIRECTOR BIO
Erik Liss works as a director of commercials, music-videos and drama in Stockholm, Sweden.
DROUGHT REMAINS by J M Feerrater-Jotaeme-Antonina Obrador
The erased face, the non-identity, the individual struggle for being
someone. The fear, fear of the sun, only at night it will resurge from the
shadows, in fact he is almost afraid of himself.
1’ 33 / 2010 / SPAIN / DP/Editor: Antonina Obrador/ AD: Jotaeme/ STYLIST:
Ana De Gregorio/ HAIR/MAKE-UP: Estrella Elorduy/MUSIC: Escape Philosophy/
CAST: Yuri Pleskun
DIRECTOR BIO
Fashion photographer and spots director in fashion and advertising for the past
30 years. His passion for fashion photography and direction carried him to a new
creative project in the emerging style of fashion film. In 2009 he has created FERRATER STUDIO together with Jotaeme, fashion photographer Art and Artistic Director since 1995 and Antonina Obrador a young film director from ESCAC School
who colaborates in fashion films and audiovisual projects in FERRATER STUDIO
since February 2009 .
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ETIQUETTE by Robi Rodgriquez
A young woman walks through the city, alone, while the voice of an older
gentleman recites the norms of how to be a lady. This juxtaposition implies her
background and higher education, as well as her alienation from society. She
knows the proper etiquette for each occasion. But her lack of friendships and
happiness, demonstrate the emptiness of such aspirations.
2’39” / 2010 / UK / CAST: Lolita Lova at FM Agency / STYLIST:Jane Howard
DIRECTOR BIO
Born in 1974. Spent exciting childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Studied Fine Art in Central Saint Martins Art& Desingn School, and Fashion Styling & Photography in
London College of Fashion. In 2002, she was nominated and exhibited at Hyeres
Festival as young photographer. “Rubbish or Treasure” is her third film made for
herself. She is dreaming to have a proper video camera and final cut pro.
FASHION FACTORY by Ludwik Pruszkowski
In the near future, a production company orders a fashion shoot to a young
photographer. The creative ambition of the young man won’t let him become a
piece of the industry for too long.
3’20” / 2010 / POLAND / PRODUCER: Haukur M. Hrafnsson /CAST: Katarzyna
Chmiel Katarzyna Pawlak Dagmara Banaczek Zuzanna KosińskaGrzywnowiczWęgielKatarzyna Koba, Justyna Kowalska Katarzyna Koba, Justyna Kowalska/
MAKE-UP & HAIR: Alex Box @ D+V Management
DIRECTOR BIO
Born in Paris in 1987, Ludwik Pruszkowski started film studies at the university
La Sorbonne where he has developed artistic installations, documentaries and
shorts. In 2008, he left France and get into the Director of Photography Departement of the Polish National Filmschool (PWSFTviT). Their, his first works
on film negative are developed under the name of Wizerunek
FRANKENFASHION by Alex Turvey
Turvey takes inspiration from the mythical Dr Frankenstein who took parts from
different bodies to make a new being. Here, a macabre sequence of events sees
fashion follow suit, leading to a surreal and transformational climax.
2’10”/ 2008 / UK / PROD: Strange Beast, Jo Phipps / CAST: Krystal South / Anna
Stephenson/ STYLIST: Laura Clayton/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Will Bex/
EDIT: Bradley Josiah
DIRECTOR BIO
Alex Turvey is a director, designer and illustrator with an eclectic oeuvre of
projects ranging from fashion films, music promos & commercials to illustrated
charity cereal boxes. Having grown up by the sea in Cornwall, he now lives by the
river in London where he started his career at Precursor, then co-founded the
Norway-UK partnership Elefant Art and now runs his own eponymous studio.
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INTERVAL (FLY 16X9) by Jamie Isaia
The film features pieces from Hussein Chalayan’s Spring 2009 collection in a
dark vignette, portraying a suspenseful moment of obscured anxiety. The highly
stylized film, featuring Ali Michaels as the main character, delves into the idea
of an internal paranoid state, calling into question throughout the film just who
is really experiencing the panic. Who should be feared ? Is it the two women
sitting just outside the bathroom door? Are they the catalysts for the increasing
tension? Or are they terrified of the isolated woman who has confined herself to
the bathroom?
3’21” / 2009 / USA / PROD: FLY 16X9 and Nomenus Quarterly / MUSIC: Casey
Smith / CAST:Ali Michaels, Daria Strokous, Olga Miliouk / DP: Andreas von
Scheele, Stephen Blaise / STYLIST: Benjamin Sturgill @ Wall Group / HAIR:
Wesley O’Meara @ /Wall Group / MAKE-UP: Yuka Kimura @ Community NY.
DIRECTOR BIO
Isaia’s editorial work for W, Italian Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Tank, Whitewall,
Exit, and The Last Magazine reveals a unique voice in fashion photography.
Jamie Isaia’s films have been featured in the ICA’s Birds Eye View Festival and
at MOMA, as well as The New York Times T Magazine, FLY 16x9 and Nomenus
Quarterly. She is currently teaching at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
MY WORLD (FLY 16X9) by Stephan Blaise
“My World” is an exploration of identity, of time and sublimation as seen
through the eyes of a photographer. It is through a series of non-linear images
that we understand the hidden fear of the photographer with connection to his
real life and that of his work which reduces the possibilities of living authentic
moments. At the end the photographer becomes the only connection between
the past and what he remembers of a life he never lived.
3:48 / 2010 / Sweden/ PROD: Axel Lindahl /Adamsky / MUSIC : Erik Österberg
/ CAST: Vicky /Stockholmsgruppen, Dino /Kid of Tomorrow, Elias /Nisch Management / ART DIRECTION:Jonas Frank /Frank Art Direction / STYLIST: Tekla
Knaust/ HAIR:Sofia Ringberger / MAKE-UP:Sofia Lewandrowski
DIRECTOR BIO
Stephen Blaise is a New York artist and the co-founder and editor in chief of
FLY 16 x 9, a multi media publication on the internet.
LOU (FLY 16X9) by Karim Sadi
The idea was to make a video based entirely on Lou, something obsessive and
haunting. Rather to be imagery than a narrative story. the idea was to suggest
a pure universe, graphic, classic and dark inspired by the paintings of Egon
Schiele, through syncopees images.
2:50 / 2009 / FRANCE / PROD: FLY 16x9 Catherine Camille Cushman / STYLIST:
Jason Farrer/DP: Peter Trilling/MUSIC: Casey Smith
DIRECTOR BIO
French photographer Karim Sadli was born in Paris and grew up in a rich multicultural environment where his passion for photography was encouraged very
early on. After studying litterature and philosophy at the Sorbonne, he moved to
London and graduated from Central Saint Martins. He soon became known for
his strong sens of composition, pure and modern images, and his use of light.
“Lou” is his first experience as a film director.
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HIGH LIFE (I ONLY DANCE WITH MY LUV) by Alex Giomo and Matilde Castellini
In a world of big cars, big money, big parties, a man is in love with a brand / icon.
1’53” / 2010 / FRANCE+ITALY / MUSIC: Elektritz / CAST:Federico Delle Piane
/ AD: Pietro Vecchi / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Alex Giomo /STYLIST:
Matilde Castellini
DIRECTOR BIO
Matilde Castellini is a freelance stylist and Alex Giomo is a photographer and
filmmaker. They work together for L’Uomo Vogue and other magazines and
brands.
KENDI by Daniel Eskils
A portrayal of a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness in Atlantic City?!
The intention was just to create a visual and humorous look at this man being and feeling lost. I like to think of him being lost in the disparity between his
exaggerated idea of himself and the sad reality. Then again, that’s only what I
project on to it. There is not much more to it than a man walking around in a city.
2’01” /2009 / USA / PROD: Partizan / Eskils Junker Film / MUSIC: The Durutti
Column - Otis /CAST:James Kendi
DIRECTOR BIO
Daniel Eskils is a Swedish director who’s visual wit, original ideas, charming
aesthetic and quirky work is quickly earning him a reputation as one to watch.
So far, he has made acclaimed music videos for Those Dancing Days, Boys
Noize and Temper Trap. His 2006 video for Knight Music’s Green River Killer is
credited for kick starting the phenomenal, ongoing ‘sleeveface’ internet trend.
His work saw him listed as one of the winners of 2008’s ADC Young Guns 6.
LE BEL ETE by Stephanie di Giusto
Short film for the launch of Spring and Summer 2010 Vanessa’s Bruno clothes collection, starring French actress Lou Doillon and singer and songwriter Gonzales.
3’26” / 2009 / FRANCE
DIRECTOR BIO
Stéphanie Di Giusto studies at the Arts Décoratifs and at Penninghen School
in Paris. She performes in photography, direction, graphics and artistic direction. Her references are Francesca Woodman, Kiki Smith, Harry Callahan and
Dolorès Marat. She works with French fashion designer Vanessa Bruno by
making video installations and being in charge of her visual communication for
few years now. She creates credits for French cultural channel “France 5” and
realizes film advertising for Orange and INPES.
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LEGALEMENT AVEUGLE by Frode & Marcus
A legally blind man‘s journey in search of his eyesight.
4’22” / 2009 / FRANCE / PRODUCTION COMPANY: Frode & Marcus/ MUSIC:
Roll The Dice/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Marcus Palmqvist & Frode Fjerdingstad/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Frode Fjerdingstad & Marcus Palmqvist
DIRECTOR BIO
Frode & Marcus capture raw, sometimes slick, sometimes grainy or distorted
images. electronic soundtracks, further agitating the nerves, are frequently
overlaid. It all adds up to an internal commentary that hails the unseen, existential, fear of the everyday: a sick but face-painted society.
SHORT CIRCUITS IN THE AFTER HOUR by Andrea Splisgar
“Enter”, she said, and there was light. No one had knocked.
1:00 / 2010 / GERMANY / PROD: Der Mondäne Tiger / MUSIC : Lord Litter / CAST:
Andrea Splisgar / AD: Andrea Splisgar / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: hans h.
DIRECTOR BIO
Andrea Splisgar is at once a performer, a narrative artist, a photographer, a
filmmaker, a writer and a storyteller. She inhabits these roles interchangeably
or switches personas in order to play different characters, fictions and rituals.
Her work usually consists in a combination of these Medias and arts. The tales,
figures and creatures developed by her are often embossed from the traditions
of fantastic film and surrealistic literature. Since 2000, Andrea Splisgar has
been living and working in Berlin.
SPECTRE by Antoine Asseraf & Rene Habermacher
“Spectre” means both “ghostly apparition” and “decomposition of light.” So for
their third collaboration, Antoine & Rene were inspired Man Ray’s 1929 film “Le
Mystere du Chateau du De” set in the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyeres, France.
They chose to confront the different eras of the villa’s history: before being a
launchpad for fashion, photography and design talent, and after its heyday as a
holiday spot for Matisse and the likes, the villa lay abandoned for many years,
haunted by the ghosts of the avant garde…
1:30 / 2010 / FRANCE
DIRECTOR BIO
Antoine Asseraf is a Paris based artistic director and film-maker who works
in advertising and fashion, formerly as a part of Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View
team. Rene Habermacher is a Swiss-born Greek-at-heart fashion photographer famous for the “iconographic” style he developed.
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CHAMBER by Benjamin Seroussi
Audrey Marnay and Virgile Bramly, a sophisticated urban couple, glides through
a maze of mirrors and shadows until they find themselves in a true seduction.
1:11 / 2009 / FRANCE / PROD: Ash Boussalem / MUSIC :George & Guy Bacter /
STYLIST: Romain Vallos/Makeup: Liz Michael/Hair: Audrey Lambert
DIRECTOR BIO
Benjamin is a young filmmaker involved in the production of fashion films and
music videos; he lives and works in Paris. He started studying film in Paris in
1997 and enrolled on the residency in Paris, he then directed and produced
films for SHOWstudio. Benjamin is now putting together his own shooting and
creative studio in Paris.
SUNSHOWERS by Elisha Smith-Leverock
The film celebrates the sun. Set in a vast field of golden reeds, a sensual
Amazon like high priestess performs a primal dance to appease the mercurial
sun goddess. The pieces featured in the film are made by Fred Butler and Rosy
Nicholas for Fred Butler’ S/S 2010 collection, styled by Kim Howells.
1:35 / 2010 / UK
DIRECTOR BIO
Elisha Smith-Leverock is filmmaker and photographer working in music and
fashion. Having lived in Italy, America and suburban Germany, Elisha settled
in Berlin where she studied photography and spent some years exploring and
documenting the city’s nightlife, music and art scene. Elisha now lives and
works in London. She has work for clients such as Another, Dazed and
Confused, Bon Magazine and 032.c. maker, documentarian, humanitarian.
ZAN DARA by Griffin
DESIGNER: Moonspoon Saloon
ZAN DARA is an exploration of memory and experience seen through the mind
and eye of a star in her twilight years. Loosely drawing inspiration from the
Greek Myth about vanity, Narcissus, the film examines memories of beauty,
joy and pain associated with a life in front of the camera. ZAN DARA unfolds
through multiple perspectives of its star, 1952 Miss Stockholm and former
1950’s top Vogue model and actress, Gita Hall.
1:41 / 2010 / USA / PROD: Naoko Tokage / MUSIC: “Fight Song” By We Are The
World / CAST: Gita Hall Martina Vassileva, Adelaide Gault, Rosabella Sullivan
Webb / DP: Ernesto Lomeli / STYLIST: Laura Duncan and Marodi
DIRECTOR BIO
A member of the American Neo Avant Garde film style, Griffin’s work embodies an
abstract and vibrant beauty with an intriguing synergy of the old and new. His images
are heavily influenced by history and memory and are both baroque and minimalist
in tone and style at the same time. Starting his career at 23 directing in Japan, Griffin
is one of the new crop of pioneering directors of the highly visually expressive and
imaginative evolving genre of the fashion film.
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AWAKE by Igor Zimmermann
5 A.M. (tears below the freezing point). Light pours in…
1:05 / SWEDEN / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
A filmmaker at heart, and a very curious person at large . Igor walks through
life collecting ideas and moments in his pockets just like shiny pebbles on the
beach. Whether designing his own props from scratch in an industrial machine
park, sleeping in cars in Western Sahara to make an epic desert film on a shoestring budget or acting as his own cinematographer - he always goes all the
way in order to get the results he is after.
AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE by Jason Last
Auguries of Innocence is a poem by William Blake, recited by model Yuri
Pleskun. Blake`s poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil & corruption. The young man`s stare & voice
penetrate, moving in & out of the darkness. An augury is a sign or omen.
1:21 / CANADIAN / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Jason Last is a New York based filmmaker & artist whose work bridges the
worlds of art, fashion, & film. For Last, fashion film is broader than something
simply being linked to the fashion industry. It is the use of fashion imagery,
clothing, models, pop culture, etc, that can take on a cinematic form.. He is very
open to the blurring of lines between the labels & genres that exist in fashion,
film, & art.
A POEM FOR A... by Justin Anderson
This film takes it’s structure from a short love poem by Harold Pinter written in
1974 about Lady Antonia Fraser his then lover and subsequent wife. She is and
was the ‘Light of his Life’. In making this film I was trying evoke some of the
feeling of the mid-seventies YSL, a beautiful girl with a rich dark skin wearing a
dress that seems to emit light, a dress being hit by cracks of sunlight. Roksanda Ilincic is designer I greatly admire; her work is very sculptural, feminine and
has a real filmic quality.
1:00 / UK / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Justin Anderson is a filmmaker working in art, fashion and commercials. Having studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and then Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, he went on to produce Video Art showing in galleries and Museums in
Europe. He lives and works in London.
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PSYCHE by Malcolm Pate
A butterfly inferno: A beautiful girls eye flickers open - in her iris we see the
singe of a cigarette instead of a pupil, a glowing ember, as a rain of burning
butterflies tumbles down around her.
1:00 / UK / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Malcolm Pate is an image-maker based in London, where he works in both
photography and film.
SARKA 23 JULY 1677 by Mastori Motwary Studio
The initial idea behind the short film “SARKA 23 JULY 1677” was to present the
Summer Collection SS2010 of clothes and Jewlery by Filep Motwary and Maria
Mastori, through a visual experience. The starting point was the drama surrounding the works and their love for cinema.
3:36 / GREECE / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Filep Motwary is part of the brand Mastori Motward Studio. In addition to his
work as a designer, he is behind “Un NouVeau ideal”. He also contributes to
POP Magazine. Nicolas Georgiou launched Dapper Dan Magazine in 2010 and is
a stylist and consultant for various fashion Brands. Thanassis Krikis is a photographer contributing to major publications such as Vogue Russia, L’officiel,
Vogue Hellas, Elle and others.
FLASH FLESH DEATH by Mattias Montero
Follow the flash.
An angel of flesh.
An angel of death.
A mans last breath…
1:00 / SWEDEN / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
A Swedish Director/DoP constantly moving between the worlds of Commercials, Music videos, and Fashion films…well, whatever that challenges.
J’AI FAIM ! by Miho Kinomura
1:00 / JAPAN / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Miho is a Los Angelos based Creative Director/Film Director. After working as a
fashion designer, Miho moved to New York and started the fashion film production company, STUDIO D.O.G. INC.
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BLIND STROBE by Pierre Debusschere
1:29 / UK / 2010
Fast
Blinding
Moving
Strobing
Images
DIRECTOR BIO
Pierre Debusschere is a visual artist working in the fields of photography &
video. He has shot editorials for several leading magazines such as Vogue
Homme Japan, Citizen K, AnOther MAN, as well as being a regular contributor
to Dazed & Confused. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe including a presentation at Colette in Paris and several galleries in Europe. He is also
online artistic director at Raf Simons.
UNTITLED by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello
Behind the curtain, an intriguing dark ritual is held by a beautiful witch.
1:00 / FRANCE / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Based in Paris, Sofia & Mauro met in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Sofia was
studying cinema while Mauro was playing music in a rock band. After moving
to Paris they won the Picto prize for young fashion photographers in 2002 and
held their first exhibition at “Le Palais de Tokyo” in Paris. Since then Sofia &
Mauro’s imagery has been published in a number of international publications (
Numéro, The New York Times Magazine , The New Yorker , Interview Magazine ,
multiple editions of Vogue , etc...)
EARTH IS BLUE by Sophie Delaporte
1:30 / FRANCE / 2010
This movie has been inspired by the Paul Eluard poem,”La terre est bleue
comme une orange” but also by all the designers clothes I loved last summer.
By making nice comparisons between women and earth, this poem evokes a
lot of things I wanted to talk about in this first movie: rapprochement between
beauty and nature, reflection on colors, movement and lightness. Many words
in this surrealist text evoke light, perhaps because blue and orange are foremost colors of the sky and the sun.
DIRECTOR BIO
Born in 1971 in Paris, Sophie studied photography and film at the ENSLL art
school. Then she moved to London and began to collaborate with english
magazines like i-D, for which she still contributes regularly. Sophie now works
between Paris and New York with magazines such as Italian Vogue, Chinese
Vogue, Uomo Vogue. She also shot campaigns for John Galliano, Le bon Marché
and Hermès.
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BLACKLIGHT by Suzie Q & Leo Siboni
2’02 / FRANCE / 2010
Blacklight is a short fashion movie, that plays on the codes of fantastic
A work on the visible and the invisible, playing with appearances and disappearances at the option of light .
DIRECTORS BIO
Suzie Q and Leo Siboni work together as photographer since 2006. they develop
a personal work mixing photography, sculpture and scenography. In 2009 they
directed their first film, PURSUIT, a short action/fashion film, using the revolutionary RED system which enables them to extract photos from film stills - a
work both filmic and photographic.
OUTSET by Van Mossevelde
OUTSET is born through the authors interest in exploring diverse aspects of
comunication experimenting the forces which characterize each one of these.
The authors want to create a unique project which embraces comunication
through a photographic, artistic and cinematographic point of view. OUTSET is
a brief visual and surreal journey which goes through dreams, nightmares and
metamorphosis of the soul.
1:07 / ITALY / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Van Mossevelde+N is formed by a couple both in life and in work: he (Van Mossevelde) is flemish, she(+N) is italian. His passion for photografic reportage and
her’s for the study of photographic history, art and communication brought the
two to work together.
Both children of architects together they cultivate their search of equilibrium
to express it in their photographs.
LIGHTS by Yoann Lemoine
Lights is a visual experimentation around the simple theme of darkness versus
brightness, the appeal of self destruction versus hope, the black versus the
white. Built on symbolic metaphors and aesthetic compositions, the film relates
the emotional day of a young adolescent saddened by the death of a bird, and
therefore facing his own death.
4:56 / 2010 / FRANCE
DIRECTOR BIO
Yoann Lemoine is a 27 years old french filmmaker awarded at the prestigious
Cannes Lions Festival for his commercials and music videos. He has already
worked for the Vogue Homme Japan and directed music videos for several artists like Yelle, Moby, Mystery Jets.. His work deals with subjects like teenage,
sexuality, nostalgia and beauty.
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STARLIGHT by Vincent Gagliostro
When pondering the idea of light, the great star Candy Darling came to mind
which then brought me to Judy Garland which finally led me to John Kelly channeling Joni Mitchel in the sunset hours of the famous Wigstock festival in New
York. The light shining from these three led me to place a “wish upon a star.”
1:00 / 2010 / USA /FRANCE
DIRECTOR BIO
Vincent Gagliostro is in preproduction for his first feature film titled AFTER
LOUIE, a “grand opera of a story” of gay men living in New York from 1968 to
the present. He is also is preparing two installation projects to be shown in
Paris and New York. For the past 25 years his particular way of seeing has provoked and challenged us all to see more
CASSIA by Zaiba Jabbar
A poetic discombobulated continuum of stolen moments with Cassia. A creature of the night she, Cassia, a being from another world wanting to belong.
Feeling isolated with a miasmic presence. She flickers through a dreamlike
landscape encountering others with whom she tries to belong.
3:43 / UK / 2010
DIRECTOR BIO
Zaiba Jabbar is a self taught filmmaker living in London. Originally studying
Graphic design at Central Saint Martin’s, Jabbar has worked in the music video
industry since 2006. However, she made the move in 2008 into more fashionorientated projects and has since worked with clients which include Aquascutum, Mulberry, Levis, Hint Magazine, Spring69, New look, David David, Hermione De Paula, William Richard Green, and Fashion 156.
LUST LUST by Martins Grauds
He was offered and he accepted
5:00 / 2009 / LATVIA / PROD: Film Studio Tanka / CAST: Aigars Stirna, Antons
Kokins, Leonids Skrjabins / DP: Uldis Jancis / STYLIST: Keta Gutmaner /
HAIR/ MAKE-UP: Maija Gundare /Music: Ivo Jusi, Ernests Ansons
DIRECTOR BIO
Martin is a filmmaker and photographer based in Latvia. He has completed over 60 commerical spots in Lativia and Lithuania
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MR. & MRS. MYTH by Vassilis Karidis & Nicolas Georgiou
Mr & Mrs Myth is an exploration in sorts, an experimental production that follows the movements of two extraordinary characters in an ordinary city. The
film records the extreme presence of the manipulated body and its superphysical capacities as they produce unexpected encounters within a known, striated
urban and cultural terrain. Mr & Mrs Myth is part of the project ATOPIC BODIES
[ONE] by ATOPOS Cultural Organization.
1:51 min. / 2010 / GREECE / DP: Vassilis Karidis/ CAST: John Vikian, Eliana
Weirich/ Artistic Director-Stylist: Nicholas Georgiou
DIRECTOR BIO
Vassilis Karidis and Nicholas Georgiou are the editors of Dapper Dan magazine,
a new biannual, independent men’s fashion and philosophy magazine, devised
and published in Athens, Greece and circulated worldwide. Dapper Dan’s second issue will be out September 2010.
MUÑECAS DE SANGRE by Bijous Altamirano
Little girl rips the heads off of her dolls and drinks their blood
1:34 / 2009 / USA / CAST: Amanita Casanova/music: Slayer ‘Reign in Blood’
DIRECTOR BIO
Bijoux Altamirano directs music videos and shoots photographs. She just shot
a fashion editorial published by Vice Magazine and is currently working a series
of photographs of the rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.y.
MY HAND SHAKES by Vincent Gagliostro
Unfinished documentation of a physical and psychological response to a
subject.
1:35 /2010 / FRANCE/ USA / CAST: Guillermo Serafini
DIRECTOR BIO
An artist and filmmaker. Currently preparing a new installation work for exhibits in Paris and New York this fall, and will direct his first feature film, AFTER
LOUIE in 2011. He is a featured artist in the “art issue” of TANK MAGAZINE in
September 2010 as well as a featured video artist on TANK TV.
MY HEART LAID BARE by Yi Zhou
It’s a readaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron: Nastagio deli Onesti.
6:00 / 2008/ FRANCE / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Claudio Zamarion/
MUSIC:Chester French / CAST: Charlotte Gainsbourg
DIRECTOR BIO
YI Zhou has been working closely with a milieu of established creatives as an
artist whose work is mainly based on film and 3d animation as media. Her
recent work “The Big Feet” is a collaboration with Wendi Murdoch. Currently
in Shanghai, she is showing “The Greatness”, a continuum of “The Ear” which
features Pharrell Williams, at Contrasts Gallery. 46.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
DESPAIR 4’ (NOWNESS) by Alex Prager
Despair depicts a woman in a state of enchantment who is compelled to enter
a strange and powerful red door that alters her life forever. Focusing on the female characters emotion of despair., Prager creates a sense of uneasiness and
mystic. The film, like Prager’s still photographs are beautiful on the surface
while having an underlying complexity to it.
4:00 / 2010 / US /MUSIC: Ali Helnweint / CAST: Bryce Dallas Howard / AD: Alex
Prager/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Matthew Libatique/ STYLIST:Callan
Stokes
DIRECTOR BIO
Alex Prager was born in Los Angeles in 1979 and raised by her grandmother in
a small apartment in the suburb of Los Feliz. She split her time between Florida, California and Switzerland. Rather than going to art school she taught herself lighting and photography through trial and error. London Times magazine
said, “That she has buckets more vision than credentials matter not, it helps to
retain the rawness and individuality of her eye. She is uncertain and dizzy – and
very capable.”. The Los Angeles Times said “Her photographs reveal a keen eye
for the shining and the bizarre, a bit Annie Leibovitz, a bit Diane Arbus.”
FOSSUS (NOWNESS) by Zen Sekizawa
“Fossus” reflects on the fragility and strength of the human body, as seen
through the contortions of a rhythmic gymnast. Against a curtain reminiscent
of a stage set, and then in silhouette, looking out into a non-existant audience,
the performer, wearing an oversized pre-columbian inspired mask, moves
through her extreme poses to Aaron Hemphill’s abstracted noise music..
3: 53 / 2010 / USA / MUSIC:Aaron Hemphill / CAST:Emilie Livingstone / AD:Tiffany Tuttler/ MAKE-UP: mask by PJ Risse/ STYLIST:Nina Miner
DIRECTOR BIO
Born and raised in Hollywood, CA, Zen Sekizawa received her BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design and has worked on numerous national
and international advertising, music and editorial projects. Her clients include
Reebok, Nokia, Cadiilac, Elle, Vogue Hommes Japan, Mute, MTV, Stop Smiling,
Wired Magazine and musical groups such as No Age and Liars.
HOW YOU LOOK AT IT (NOWNESS) by Poppy De Villeneuve
This is a film about a Chinese woman navigating New York City for the first time
and her chance encounter on the subway. She imagines spending the day with
a stranger across from her. Her thoughts drift, she imagines her fellow passenger teaching her to swim in a 1920s swimming pool. By the end of the film, she
learns that the stranger has also been watching her.
3: 56 / 2010 / UK / MUSIC:MPM London / CAST:Liu Wen & Edoardo Ballerini /
AD:Poppy de Villeneuve and Joanee Blades / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Poppy de Villeneuve /MAKE-UP: mask by PJ Risse/ STYLIST: Joanne Blades
DIRECTOR BIO
Poppy de Villeneuve is a photographer and film director. She shoots regularly
for the New York Times, The Telegraph (UK), and Vogue Magazine, and her most
recent film project involved five short films set in Central Park for the New York
Times. In 2010, several of her works were exhibited at Colette in Paris.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
THE OBSESSION by Giampaolo Sgura
THE OBSESSION is a story about possession and weakness, love and despise.
The main character loves the three men in her life, but at the same time she
loves her wicked and dangerous vice: she sells her men’s bodies to night. You
can buy a piece of them: price is pain, every inch of their skin is filled with vanity and voyeurism. This woman’s lust for possession is mixed with the perverted
everyday normal life of a dull love-routine where nothing ever change. A love
story like any other.
4:13 / 2009 /ITALY/ CAST: Hannelore Knuts,Bruno Rodriguez, Andrea
Amadei,Dominique Frieg Madani / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Giampaolo
Sgura /ARTISTIC DIRECTOR:Giampaolo Sgura/Francesco Scognamiglio /
EDITING and ASSISTING DIRECTOR: Francesco Parrella/ STYLIST:Paolo Turina
DIRECTOR BIO
Giampaolo Sgura works as a Fashion Photographer after studying architecture
he moved to fashion. He works for international magazines such as Vogue Paris,
Vogue Nippon, GQ,Vogue Homme and shoots for brands including Dolce&gabbana,
Roberto Cavalli, Max Mara, Scognamiglio, Blumarine and Moschino.
OF THIS, MEN SHALL KNOW NOTHING! by Fritz Stolberg
Based on Max Ernst’s work of the same title, “Of This, Men Shall Know Nothing!” picks up on the occult content of the surrealist painting and describes
an intuitive journey to unify polar opposites. This ultimatly alchemist quest is
illustrated by the unification of the the five platonic solids and their duals and
culminates in the androgynous fusion of the male and female aspects of the
main character. Looking at the surrealists’ relation between film and psychoanalysis at the beginning of modernism, the film puts fashion back on the
couch by shedding a light into the shadow of the unconscious, addressing notions of identity, gender-roles, and transformation.
5’38”/ 2010 / UK /CAST: Nissa Nishikawa, David Medalla, Chaman ChLomenechDill, Franky Farra Frond, Alexandra Groover, Maria Garcia, and Koto the dog /
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Fritz Stolberg /ARTISTIC DIRECTOR:Fritz Stolberg/
MUSIC: Ebe Oke
DIRECTOR BIO
Fritz Stolberg is an artist/filmmaker based in London. He studied philosophy
in Frankfurt and film and fine arts in London. Parallel to his art practice he has
produced and directed several music videos and fashion films.
RODARTE by Wing Shya
A study of emotion in motion. Suspended in a sea of time and tears, a lone
woman yearns for something once lost but never found. Vulnerability mirrors
her every movement, a constant reflection in her dance through solitude and
darkness. For, she asks, what is imagination but a cloud of deception?
3:55 / 2010 / HONGKONG / MUSIC : Peter kam / CAST: Yu Siao, August Zhang,
Jun Kim / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Sean Kunjambu/DP: Gordon Leung / STYLIST:
Sean Kunjambu / HAIR: Ray Chan / MAKE-UP: Karen Yiu
DIRECTOR BIO
Wing Shya is a Hong Kong based photographer who works in fashion, film, and
art. Born in 1964, Shya regularly contributes to international fashion and art
magazines. He has also been the exclusive photographer and graphics designer for Wong Kar Wai’s film. Aside from photography, shya is also a recognized
director. His works involves music videos, commercials, and art videos.
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SELFPORTRAIT by Erik Liss & Axel Lindahl
Sex, tools and clothes in a passionate triangle-drama.
2’50” / 2010 / Sweden/ PROD: Axel Lindahl /Adamsky / MUSIC : Erik Österberg
/ CAST: Vicky /Stockholmsgruppen, Dino /Kid of Tomorrow, Elias /Nisch Management / ART DIRECTION:Jonas Frank /Frank Art Direction / STYLIST: Tekla
Knaust/ HAIR:Sofia Ringberger / MAKE-UP:Sofia Lewandrowski
DIRECTOR BIO
Erik Liss works as a director of commercials, music-videos and drama in
Stockholm. Axel Lindahl is a highly acclaimed DoP based in Stockholm. He is
represented by Adamsky agency.
SEVEN by Johan Renck
A nightmare-scape of an old woman telling her life story from inside a barn
filled with skittish livestock and obviously, a duo of beard-faced men. Music by
fever ray.
3’43” /2009 / SWEDEN
DIRECTOR BIO
Swedish Director Johan Renck is a photographer, a painter, works in theatre,
is a Swedish pop star and one of the best European directors in the industry
creating well crafted videos and uniquely styled ads over the past 7 years.
THE LOVE THING byJames Lima
A ‘motion-torial’, bringing to life power and style of a fashion shoot, symbolising
the transitional time we’re in - the world in which the motion-torial takes place
actually is a simulation - an architectural avatar of the real world; a metamorphosis from analog to digital. The city transforms from photo-real representation
to one where the pages of LOVE are actual constructs of the physical world.
0’55” /2010/ UK /MUSIC: “A/B Machines” by Sleigh Bells CLOTHES: PRADA /
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: James Lima / CREATIVE DIRECTOR & STYLING:
Katie Grand /HAIR:Ashley Javier / MAKE-UP: Lucia Pica
DIRECTOR BIO
Lima is immersed in exploration and technological possibilities of new media and
evolving advertising industry. Clients include: James Cameron’s Avatar, Madonna, Prada, True Blood, Spider-Man 4, Terminator, Pepsi, Nike and, Levis, so it’s
no surprise that he has directed, designed, and created visual worlds for: Steven
Spielberg, James Cameron, and Joe Pytka. He is Director and Designer of Shiny
New TV.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
FAUSTINE by Thomas Capdeville
Faustine, a young woman, pure and beautiful turns away from God to satisfy her
quest of excitement. Through an intense seduction with the Devil, she finally
gives in to him : her soul against eternal beauty and a blazing life. From then
on, her beauty is exceptional but black magic only brings her narcissistic madness. The Devil will let the lunacy burn her, crushed down by her own vanity.
2010/ FRANCE / Music: Bellville Boys/Cast: Xlvo Falk, Anais Bonnie Banane,
Cdrikk Djon
DIRECTOR BIO
Video, photo, drawings are my holy expressions. As a virgin I’ve nothing to say
about my past.
THRUST by Konstantinos Menelaou & George Tsioutsias
A woman trapped in her own world. A psychosomatic expression of her fears
and anxieties within a confined space. Bordering on the paranormal, she dramatically indulges in what appears to be a figment of her imagination.
2:42 /2010 / UK / CAST: Producer: Marlon Rueberg Tenley / DP: Menelaou &
Tsioutsias / STYLIST: Nuno Antunes / MAKE-UP: Renata Mandic/HAIR: Anna
Fruggiero/DP: Menelaou & Tsioutsias/MUSIC: Micke Lindebergh
DIRECTOR BIO
Konstantinos Menelaou is an art director/film-maker whose work is greatly
influenced by fashion images, pop culture and horror cinema. He has collaborated with fashion designers such as Ilya Fleet, Charlie Le Mindu and Gemma
Slack and has shown work internationally in galleries and experimental film
festivals. George Tsioutsias is a designer/art director and co-founder of Tearapart.tv. His multidisciplinary background allows him to work across a wide
range of formats including commercials, music videos, virals, title sequences
and branded content, for clients such as David LaChapelle, Coca Cola, Ted
Baker and MTV.
HEDI WHO…? by Joost Vandebrug
Hedi who…? Is a mini documentary about Kris van Assche. We follow Kris
around just a few days before the Dior Homme and KVA shows in Paris. He
talks openly about the critics, how he felt when he started at Dior en how his
friends told him not to take the job [as creative director at Dior Homme in the
first place.
5:11 / 2009 / GERMANY / PROD: Manja Otten PM / MUSIC: \Dior Homme
Show music
DIRECTOR BIO
Joost Vandebrug studied VAV (film department) at the Amsterdam Academy of
arts Gerrit Rietveld and trained with photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf.
Joost is based in London and Amsterdam.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
WONDERWOOD by The Quay Brothers
The piece entitled Wonderwood is an allegorical representation of non-verbal
passion, the film expresses through visual rapture the beautiful exorbitance of
this new Comme des Garcons Fragrance.
3:15 / 2010 / UK /DP: Quay Brothers/Artistic Director: Quay Brothers
DIRECTOR BIO
Stephen and Timothy Quay are American identical twin brothers. They reside
and work in the UK. They are the most reputable cinema directors for doing
stop motion filmmaking. Most of their films feature dolls often partially disassembled, in a dark moody atmosphere. Their work shows a wide range of often
esoteric influences.
MEDICAL MISTAKES by Steven Klein
‘The division between beauty and medical procedures has diminished in modern times. Even young girls are turning to the promise of surgery, injectables
and other maneuvers to contour and control physical destiny. This film is a
deconstruction of what beauty is becoming.’
1:19 / 2008 / USA / CAST: Lisa Cant, Guinevere Van Seenus /STYLIST: Phyllis
Posnick/ HAIR: Julien D’Ys/ MAKE-UP: Peter Phillips
DIRECTOR BIO
Steven Klein is one of today’s most sought-after fashion photographers. His portriture is a document of his encounter with the subject. “I do begin with an idea, a
series of ideas that link together logically. But logic is often superseded by events
beyond my control.” “It is not meant to reveal them, nor is it meant to subject
them to an X-ray; it is a departure from that. I am more interested in the alchemical reaction that occurs when elements are brought together in a space.”
NOCTURNA by Daniel Askill
:55 / 2010 /JAPAN
DIRECTOR BIO
Australian filmmaker and artist Daniel Askill lives and works between Sydney
and New York and has been described as “a technical clinician with a designer’s eye fro form and a composer’s affection for minimalism” . As a director he
has created film, video installations, music videos and commercials. His background has also lead him to release his first album as a composer/producer at
19 while also designing record sleeves and multi media projects.
HAPPY CULTURE by Cyril Guyot
1:14 / 2010 / UK/FR/USA
DIRECTOR BIO
Cyril is a photograher and filmmaker, who divides his time between London,
Paris and New York. His sexy unique experimental style has recently been aired
in spots for Air France, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Hewlett Packard.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
GLEN LUCHFORD WITH TILDA SWINTON by Glen Luchford
4’15” / 2010 / UK/France/ PROD:Premiere Heure / DAZED AND CONFUSED
/ MUSIC : Erik Österberg / CAST: Tilda Swinton/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jack Webb / CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jerry Stafford/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Christopher Simmonds/STYLIST: Katy England/ HAIR:Sam McKnight / MAKE-UP:
Lisa Houghton
DIRECTOR BIO
A British fashion photographer and film director. He has done advertising campaigns for Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, among others. In 2001 he directed ‘Here
to Where’ about a filmmaker wanting to make a film about a man stranded in
an airport, it was nominated for the Michael Powell award at the Edinboorgh
Film Festival. Luchford is represented by Art Partner.
FUTURE MEMORIES by Stefano Galuzzi
we are the ones
of yesterday
and those
of today
we’re stealing
memories
for days to come
floating in a time
without dimension
1’35”/ 2010 / ITALY /PROD: Koan Film/Music:Steve Piccolo, DP: Stefano Galuzzi
/STYLIST: Tanya Jones/ hair: Franco Argento/makeup: Arianna Cattarin
DIRECTOR BIO
Born in Milan, Italy ,in the seventies. Stefano is a self tought photographer and
director. His style gets inspiration from life and movies.He has worked for several international magazines and clients. Currently lives in Paris.
BUTT BEACH TOWELS by Marcelo Krasilcic
A series of short videos celebrating the arrival of the Butt Beach Towels at
American Apparel. The actual models depicted in the Butt Beach Towels come
back for double and triple play!
1’30 / 2010 / USA/ Cast: Juan José Quiceno, Arpad Miklos, Ernie Lijol, Devin
Elijah and Michael Bullock/DP & AD: Marcelo Krasilcic/Producer: Michael
Bullock
DIRECTOR BIO
Marcelo Krasilcic is a Brazilian American artist celebrated for his sexy krazy
chic style. His work has graced the pages and walls of the most influential
magazines, fashion companies and galleries of our times.
FASHION FILMS IN COMPETITION
RED by Rain Li
A dance performance that combines ballet, jazz and modern dance, expressing
a woman’s complex emotions and sensuality. The film was created for an event
that Rain Li did for a leading China magazine publishing company ‘Modern
Media’.
4:34 / 2009 / CHINA / UK / PROD: Velvet Rain/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rain Li /Christopher Doyle/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Rain Li / STYLIST: Emma
Zhang/ HAIR /MAKE-UP: David Song
DIRECTOR BIO
Rain Li was born and raised in China. By age twenty-six, she had shot 12 features, twenty-five short films, numerous popular commercials, music videos
and also interesting art and fashion projects. She was voted one of the ‘10 Best
Cinematographers’ of The Year’ by Variety in 2007 and received the ‘Best Cinematography’ award from the Boston Film Critic in 2009. Hollywood Reporter
has featured her to be one of the most talented cinematographers in the next
generation. Her production company is called Velvet Rain.
TALENTHOUSE WINNERS
ARE YOU ALSO WISTFUL by Sarah Culbreth
This film documents Sarah Culbreth’s Fall 2010 collection, which is the result
of watching Twin Peaks and reading old issues of National Geographic all summer. “Are you also wistful?” illustrates how children daydream when they are
bored in church.
2:30 / 2010 / USA
DIRECTOR BIO
Sarah Culbreth is an Apparel Design undergraduate student at Florida State
University. She lives in a mansion covered in vines, where she daydreams and
sews all day long. Chris Cameron completed the BFA program for graphic
design at Florida State University. Both Sarah and Chris live and work out of
Tallahassee, Florida.
HEIDI BOYS by Youngist Indie
A tribute to the amazing Hedi Slimane and a nod to his great influence on rock
and roll style, fashion, photography, and culture. This is a rock video with playdoh characters wearing looks from the awesome Dior Homme Spring 2006
collection.
2:30 / 2009 / USA
DIRECTOR BIO
“Youngest Indie” was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. An artist working as
a fashion designer, she felt frustrated with the lack of creative projects in her
life outside of her job. So, she decided to create Youngest Indie, a project of
film, playdoh, music, fashion, style, and photography.
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
Awakening by Rain Li
3:58 / 2009 / CHINA / UK / PROD: Velvet Rain/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rain Li /Christopher Doyle/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Rain Li / STYLIST: Emma
Zhang/ HAIR /MAKE-UP: David Song/ CAST: Fangyuan Chen
DIRECTOR BIO
Rain Li was born and raised in China. By age twenty-six, she had shot 12 features, twenty-five short films, numerous popular commercials, music videos
and also interesting art and fashion projects. She was voted one of the ‘10 Best
Cinematographers’ of The Year’ by Variety in 2007 and received the ‘Best Cinematography’ award from the Boston Film Critic in 2009. Hollywood Reporter
has featured her to be one of the most talented cinematographers in the next
generation. Her production company is called Velvet Rain.
Cleaners Wear Prada by Michael Nyman
The Cleaners wear Prada is from a series called “Distractions”. When Nyman is
on tour with his music he walks around with his photo/video camera and takes
it out when ever something catches his attention. He never composes music
for his low-fi films but tends to use pieces that he has composed for something in the past. Cleaners wear Prada is a 9 minute film showing two cleaners at work in Milan at the Prada store. One on the inside the other on the
outside. It is not edited.
8:38 / 2009 / UK
DIRECTOR BIO
As one of Britain’s most innovative and celebrated composers, Michael Nyman’s work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and
orchestral concertos. Far more than merely a composer, he’s also a performer,
conductor, bandleader, pianist, author, musicologist and now a photographer
and film-maker. Although he’s far too modest to allow the description ‘Renaissance Man’, his restless creativity and multi-faceted art has made him one of
the most fascinating and influential cultural icons of our times.
Nyman first made his mark on the musical world in the late 1960s, when he
invented the term ‘minimalism’ and, still in his mid-twenties, earned one of his
earliest commissions, to write the libretto for Birtwistle’s 1969 opera Down By
The Greenwood Side. His most notable scores number a dozen Peter Greenaway films, including such classics as The Draughtsman’s Contract and The
Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; Neil Jordan’s The End Of The Affair; several Michael Winterbottom features including Wonderland and A Cock And Bull
Story; the Hollywood blockbuster Gattaca - and, of course, his unforgettable
music for Jane Campion’s 1993 film, The Piano, the soundtrack album of which
has sold more than three million copies.
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
If You Had Been The Moon by Peter McGough
If You Had Been The Moon is a short film that portrays two young Hollywood
hopefuls that meet during their 1930s screen test. As the story progresses,
this Film Noir portrays the boys slowly becoming enamored with each other in
poetic, Surrealistic dream sequences.
10:00 / 2009 / USA / PRODUCTION COMPANY: Vision On /DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:Nicholas Metcalf / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Peter McGough / STYLIST:
Peter McGough/ HAIR: Kenneth Salon, NYC/ MAKE-UP: Mike Potter
DIRECTOR BIO
From 1980 through 1995, McDermott & McGough, partners in art and life, lived as
Early 20th Century gentleman. Dressing, living, and working as artists and men
about town, circa 1900 - 1928, they often wore top hats, detachable collars and
lived in a East Village townhouse, which was lit only by candle light.
McDermott & McGough are dedicated to living historicity; they once drove their
1913 Model-T Ford to Niagara Falls and back. “This was not play acting”, says
McGough, rather “This was an experiment in time. We were trying to build a
bubble environment and a fantasy we could live in.”McDermott & McGough are
fascinated by “what lies beyond what we understand.” The artist’s dedicated
philosophies to unraveling life’s mysteries have evolved since the 18th century.
Their paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations, all of which have two
dates, one for the subject and one for the actual year completed, are attempts
to understand time and—to the best of their ability—articulate intellectual and
emotional history. Paraphrasing Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), founder of
Christian Science, McGough says, “Time is a mortal thought…” For the artists,
all Time exist at the same year, hour, minute, and, just as works of art can be
transportative, so too can inhabiting different centuries and their mandates. Religion, medicine, advertising, fashion, and above all homoeric culture—a history
often hidden—are special interests for the collaborative team who continue their
artistic collaboration, with McDermott in Ireland in a 19th-century townhouse,
and McGough in a 1930s moderne skyscraper in Manhattan.
Mean to Me by Peter McGough
The period piece chronicles the end of an affair in 1930s Manhattan, as a
glamorous courtesan (Deyn) discovers that her aristocratic British lover, Walter
(Roache), intends to marry a wealthy heiress in order to “stay afloat” in the
depths of the Depression. At once vulnerable and despairing, the mistress is
unraveled not by heartbreak, but by the terror of returning to a life burdened by
destitution. As the story develops, Deyn’s past is linked to a subordinate social
class, while Walter maintains an emotionally abusive, patrician sensibility.
12:00 / 2010 / USA / PROD: Bettina Prentice Communications & 24 DP/ Agyness
Deyn and Linus Roache /DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Dominic Lahiff/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Peter McGough / STYLIST: Emma Zhang/HAIR: Giannandrea
Marongiu/ MAKE-UP: Nick Barose
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
String Theory by Zach Gold
The protagonist travels through a series of dream states, experiencing the
sense-worlds of objects she encounters.
10:00 / 2010 / USA / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Steve Romano/ARTISTIC:
Michael Sturgeon / CAST: Evelina Mambetova @ New York Models/ STYLIST:
David Dumas/ HAIR: Eloise Cheung @ Artists by Next using Aveda/ MAKE-UP:
Vincent Oquendo @ Artists by Next using Smashbox/ MUSIC: Casa Nova Studios
DIRECTOR BIO
Zach Gold began his professional photography career soon after graduating with
honors from Parsons 1995. He was one of the first artists in the world to successfully blend the subtle complexities both camera and computer to produce
photorealistic digital art. Zach has collaborated top luxury brands and amazing
personalities including David Bowie, David Beckham, Iman, and Steve Carrell.
A Film Directed by Ryan McGinley with Tilda Swinton
by Ryan McGinley
The film follows a nameless female protagonist played by Tilda Swinton as she
moves through the various Scottish landscapes to be found near her hometown of Nairn. She appears to be exploring the collage of moods and emotions
evoked by places, alert to the textures of sound and silence, of ancient and
modern.
7:43/ 2009 / UK / Executive Producer: Pringle of Scotland/ CAST: Tilda
Swinton/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ryan McGinley/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR:
Neville Wakefield/ STYLIST: Clare Waight Keller / Jerry Stafford/ HAIR: Duffy at
Premier Hair and Make-up/ MAKE-UP: Kay Montano at D and V Management/
Music: Dogee Mountain (interlude) / WRITTEN/Performed by: Huun Huur Tu
and Carmen Rizzo
DIRECTOR BIO
Ryan McGinley was born in 1977, he lives and works in New York. He studied graphic
design at Parsons School of Design in New York but nurtured an interest in photography early on and began taking images in 1998. At 24 Ryan McGinley became the
youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Valentino MASTERS OF STYLE by Madeleine Czigler
A look at what revves up Italian fashion legend, Valentino Garavani’s creative
engine. From his luxurious home in London, and his atelier in Rome, Valentino
gives a moving account of his career and his search for beauty and those jetset
clients that put him on fashion’s map.
50:00/ 2010 / CANADA / WRITTEN BY: Tim Blanks
DIRECTOR BIO
Madeleine Czigler is a journalist and TV producer specializing in culture and
fashion. She is Canadian but has lived in Paris for the past twenty years.
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
Hide and Seek a la Louis Vuitton by Zoe Cassavetes
Two young and stylish women play hide and go seek, using London’s Hampstead
Heath and the city as their stage. It is a mix of fantasy meets reality, using dreamlike images and music to celebrate life and honoring the brand Louis Vuitton.
1:41/ 2010 / USA /FR
DIRECTOR BIO
Zoe Cassavetes is an American filmmaker and photographer living in Paris. Her
debut film, BROKEN ENGLISH, which she wrote and directed debuted in 2007.
Her photo credits include New York Times magazine, Elle, Air France Madame,
Madame Figaro, Italian Glamour, and Liberation. Cassavetes hails from a family
of award-winning filmmakers and actors. She is currently preparing two films in
which she wrote and will direct in 2010-2011.
MISSONI by Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger’s film dealing with the fall/winter collection of the Varese-based
house of Missoni, produced by filmmaker/Anger manager/Dangerous Minds pal
Brian Butler and scored by French composer Koudiam.
2:32/ 2010 / USA
DIRECTOR BIO
A prodigious talent whose skill and imagination create films of great visual impact. Anger is considered the most original, influential,and truly independent of
all American film artists. Jonas Mekas described him, “one of the most complex
personalities working in cinema. Whatever he does, be it cinema or life, he does
it fully, to the bottom…Kenneth Anger, the True Cosmic Explorer.” He is the renowned author of the scandalous best-selling book Hollywood Babylon.
WE WANT WAR by Daniel Askill
Shooting in London, brothers Daniel and Jordan created this 7min video to accompany a beautiful, epic track from the very talented ‘These New Puritans.’
Battle Cat head piece by Jordan Askill.
7:25/ 2009 / UK / PRODUCTION COMPANY: Rokkit/Collider / CAST: These New
Puritans - Band Members/ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Sam Brown/ STYLIST: Jordan Askill/MUSIC: These New Puritans - We Want War
DIRECTOR BIO
Australian filmmaker and artist Daniel Askill lives and works between Sydney
and New York and has been described as “a technical clinician with a designer’s
eye for form and a composer’s affection for minimalism” . As a director he has
created film, video installations, music videos and commercials. His background
has also led him to release his first album as a composer/producer at 19, while
also designing record sleeves and multi media projects.
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
FIRST SPRING by Yang Fudong
The film is set on a film studio complex that replicates the streets of Shanghai
in the 1940s. The space depicts both the splendid and the decay of that time,
where architecture was a fusion between Western Art Deco and the Chinese
vernacular. The film opens on the interior of this surreal set, where there is a
cafe, a night club and casino, filled with a hedonistic atmosphere of that era.
A group of boys are sitting or leaning against the wall around the space in
silence. Gradually they stand up, following one another, the boys slowly venture
out of this haze and onto the main street. In one long take, the camera follows
the boys. Walking along this empty street, randomly, the boys encounter Chinese male characters of the past. They walk on by as though walking through a
metaphysical time line. Observing without engaging. At the end of the streets,
the camera points upwards towards the sky and finally fixes on a scene across
two buildings. The boys reappear in a line, holding umbrellas, walking on a thin
bridge across the sky. One by one, they slowly walk off the screen, symbolizing
their departure from the past, and entering the unknown of their future.
9:16/ 2010 / USA / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Zhou Shuhao/CAST:Geng Le
Ji Lili, Jacob Coupe, Adrien Sahores , Zhao Lei, Gao Xiuli/ Screenplay: Yang
Fudong/ Music: Huang Xun
DIRECTOR BIO
Yang Fudong, was born in Beijing in 1971, and graduated from the department
of oil painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He now lives and works
in Shanghai. He has participated in major international exhibitions and activities,
including the 11th Kassel Documenta in 2002, and the Carnegie International,
Pittsburgh in 2004. That year he was also nominated for the most important contemporary art prize in the United States --- the Guggenheim Foundation’s Hugo
Boss Contemporary Art Prize. Yang Fudong has exhibited in exhibitions curated
by Hans Ulrich Obrist at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Moore
Space, Miami, both in 2003. He has also participated in the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2005; the Serpentine Gallery’s and Astrup Fearnley
Museums ‘China Power Station Part One’ at Battersea Power Station, London
followed by Part Two in Oslo; the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
at the Queensland Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia in 2006;
and the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 at the invitation of Robert Storr, the distinguished art critic.
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
NO WAY BACK by Ari Marcopoulos
A short documentary-style film, a meditation on the universe of legendary
tattoo artist Mark Mahoney.
8:01/ 2009 /USA
DIRECTOR BIO
an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New
York and California. began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol. He
is known for his intimate style filming people living on the edge.
AIN’T NOTHIN LIKE THE REALTHING by Bruce Weber
StefanoPilate gave a carte blanche to Bruce Weber to make a film around his
fall/winter menswear collection 2010-2011
7:35/ 2010 / USA
DIRECTOR BIO
Celebrated American photographer and filmmaker.
VISVIM Dissertation on Permeation: Harmony versus Convergence
by Hiroki Nakamura
Hiroki Nakamura travels the globe visiting different manufacturers in order to
hear their stories, experience their materials first-hand, and better understand
the true essence of their work. Though the origins of these artisans are different, their passion for craft remains same. Hints gradually take shape over time,
leading finally in manufactured product. This documentary reveals how visvim
collections are born.
20:00/ 2010 / JAPAN / PRODUCTION COMPANY: Cubism Inc.
DIRECTOR BIO
Born in 1971 in Japan, Nakamura independently established CUBISM
inc. in 2001 following a career in the sporting goods industry. As Creative Director, he launched the footwear brand visvim, which over the
years has evolved into a full lifestyle collection of apparel, accessories,
and fragrances, with footwear remaining the essential element. This
documentary is Hiroki Nakamura’s directorial debut.
WINGS 1 +2+3 by Eva & Adele
This atypical couple, self-proclaimed as The Hermaphrodite Twins in Art, is
symbolic of art today. In mixing the sexual signs, EVA & ADELE are committed to going over the boundaries of gender. “We want to show that sex is not an
issue as simple as the difference between black and white. Our appearance is
abstract: we’re dressed like women and our heads are pretty masculine”. Their
tangible work is no less surprising, mixing traditional media and materials (oil
on canvas, pastel, watercolour, pencil on paper…) with their singular attitude
and identity. Their self-portraits are the starting point of all their works, which
the couple produce from visual archives of their appearances in the art world or
in their daily lives, combined with a variety of drawings and patterns.
60:00/ 1998 /GERMANY
FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
CARTE BLANCHE TO MIKE FIGGIS Films by Mike Figgis
45:00/ UK
CANDY PRATTS/ MET BALL
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
GIVENCHY
ROSEY CHAN PLAYS PHILLIP GLASS IN BOUDICCA
SHANISH STEP
42 BELOW
DIRECTOR BIO
Mike Figgis is an Academy Award nominated film Director, Writer and
Composer. He is best known for his films, Leaving Las Vegas and Time Code.
His other works include The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Cold Creek Manor and
Love Live Long. red-mullet.com
Diesel new voices in collaboration with Dazed and ConfuSed
Diesel New Voices is a program designed to bring together some of the most
exciting new film-makers to create a series of documentary films on global
micro-cultures : niche youth scenes or communities with a shared passion that
shapes their identity. Diesel supported the production of three short films of 8-10
minutes of length. Another expression of the values of subversion, bravery and
irreverence of Diesel and with the be Stupid philosophy.
CULT YOUTH by Coco Wang and Mi You, 08:19 / China
This is a story about life and work of 4 young Chinese comic artists from
the underground comic group CULT YOUTH in Beijing. We are going to combine
the techniques of film and animation, making a dramatic presentation of the
artists and their rebellious work.
SKATEISTAN by Orlando Von Ensiedel, 08:20 / UK
A few years ago, 3 Australian skateboarders brought their skateboards to
Kabal and began teaching local kids how to skate. Since then the project has
grown considerably and has not only created Afghanistan’s first skateboard
scene but also an environment where young people (boys and girls) can come
together to do exercise, forge friendships that trascend social barriers and
create identities that are more nuanced than those based solely on
ethnicities and religion
THE BOYS FROM PUNTA PRETA by Thierry albert ans Marcus Werner Hed,
08:09 / UK
“The boys from Punta Pesta” is story of positive rebellion, a story of
commitment and the belief in what life has to offer. Despite the harshness
of island life and the struggles still taking place around them, three
surfers hav brought new ideas to their small island and forged ther own
vibrant community there.