The Film

By Andrew Gow, 16:00 Fri 13 Apr 2007

Beasting, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton's intense photoshoot of last February is brought to film at last, edited by Ruth Hogben. Stills from the shoot will also be displayed in the Project Gallery. As an accompaniment to the April issue of Arena Homme+, the cover of which can now be seen peering out from magazine racks across the land (and allegedly from the top shelf in certain outlets too) the image depicts the beast of six arms that Nick and Simon captured during their two day shoot, a brawny spectacle that wears the outré headpieces and garments of John Galliano's A/W 07 menswear collection. The film and photoshoot, both visual paeans to hypermasculinity, manage to blur the boundaries between physical combat and sexual frenzy, taking us through the mysterious rituals of exclusive masculine space - a domain in which war-impulse, erotic charge and horseplay become indistinguishable.

View this project