CANNES 2006

Mike Figgis, Nick Knight

Viewing film festivals as ‘highly suspect at the best of times’ Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate rouse to survive Cannes 2006. Acting as a (rather famous) ‘beach portraitist’, he set up a make-shift studio in his hotel bedroom and a gallery at the back of his host nightclub and spent the week photographing and exhibiting prints of the various directors, actresses, producers and writers attending the festival. In the gallery, filmed interview and essay below, Figgis shared with SHOWstudio his resultant images, his thoughts on the festival and the history of how photography has influenced his image career.

• Gallery Last updated 12 Jun 2006
• Cannes Diary Last updated 12 Jun 2006
• Interview Last updated 12 Jun 2006
• Contributors Last updated 12 Jun 2006

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Mike Figgis] [Interview]

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EDITING FASHION

Olivier Alary/Rupert Angarita-Dodds/Craig Armstrong/Apurva Asrani/Michael Blackburn/Vladimir Boboshin/Nigel Buck/William Chang/Saulyus Chyamolonskas/ Egoli Editing Team/Mike Figgis/John Galliano/John Gosling/Nick Knight/ Sam McKnight/Charles Nartey Mezo/Sharmin Nordien/Greg Perler/Christopher Seguine/ Sam Sneade/Anna Span/Joanna Swan

An offshoot from our three-month MOVING FASHION project at the end of 2005, EDITING FASHION shifted the focus of SHOWstudio's ongoing exploration of fashion film from direction to the editing process and from established, guest artists to the SHOWstudio viewer base. For this, we offered a package of source material –including exclusive film footage shot by Nick Knight and a selection of possible soundtracks by guest artists- that could be downloaded and edited by SHOWstudio Viewers. Viewers were asked to make an edit from the material provided which lasted up to two minutes. By keeping the source material the same in all cases, the emphasis was kept on the individual editor’s approach and authorship. The finished films could then be uploaded onto SHOWstudio from mid-January 2006 and screened in the Viewers’ Cut gallery.

A second phase of this project saw a number of high-profile, internationally-based, professional editors from a range of different genres tackle the same footage to create a series of five-minute shorts in early 2006.

• Project Blog Last updated 20 Dec 2005
• Editors' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Reports Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Casting Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Characters Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Footage Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Viewers' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Contributors Last updated 19 Dec 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]

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