'I Feel' by Natalia Brilli
With her leather-shrouded accessories inspired by seventies Horror films, seventeenth century Vanitas Paintings and Nick Cave lyrics, Natalia Brilli’s Future Tense film naturally expresses the dark, melancholy and slightly chilling vision central to her work. In collaboration with photographer Jean-François Carly and Maria Luisa’s Robin Schulié, I Feel is heavily influenced by the aesthetics of the Midnight Movies of Dario Argento and Alejandro Jodorowsky that also inform and inflame Brilli’s work. With her A/W 2008 collection inspired, in Brilli’s own words, by “the very cliché images of hell such as those you can find on biker t-shirts or Jehovah's witness books”, I Feel captures some of the same drama, suspense and terror through its own apocalyptic imagery of dark nights, fleeing damsels and flaming totems.