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Fashion Film Showcase: Spring 2022

by SHOWstudio on 27 May 2022

After you responded to our open call for filmmakers all over the globe to submit their work, Nick Knight and fashion film whiz Raquel Couceiro sat down to carefully critique a selection of chosen films as part of our brand new seasonal showcase. What did they say this time? Learn from the best in the business and become immersed in the world of fashion film through this introspective lens.

After you responded to our open call for filmmakers all over the globe to submit their work, Nick Knight and fashion film whiz Raquel Couceiro sat down to carefully critique a selection of chosen films as part of our brand new seasonal showcase. What did they say this time? Learn from the best in the business and become immersed in the world of fashion film through this introspective lens.

Fashion Film Showcase 2022
Inspired by the horror video game series 'Silent Hill', there's a certain uneasiness felt throughout Nefeli Synesiou-Quay's 'ANTE LOPE'. From the tense background music to the speckled haze that grazes over each still image, there's a horror lurking nearby, as proven by the yellow text that appears at the bottom of the screen, 'Casual watchers would study these Inhumans and come to find that their bizarre figures were corpses'. Say no more; this is no bedtime watch.
Riffing off those infamous 'quarantine dreams', Holly Lavelle's abstract and slightly absurd 'Bedroom Landing' offers commentary on some of the director's personal dreams - one of which is where she was sunbathing on Mars. To create this vision, Lavelle looked to the tacky retro aesthetic of 1950s low budget sci-films to emulate.
'Cluster' in a nutshell, spotlights a cluster of sweaty bodies, dancing, moving and shaking. The André Atangana film stirs the perfect concoction of love, sweat, control and freedom.
Set in a suburban future, Hiball's 'ECHOES OF THE SUBURBS' reveals exactly what it says on the tin; only these echoes come in the form of ghostly encounters - 'echoing a future that's merging with reality'. Adolfo Bioy Casares's novel 'The Invention of Morel' provides the main inspiration to the story through a sense of distortion and blending of realities.
'IT IS NOT SPRING, UNTIL ALL FLOWERS BLOSSOM' acts as a promotional film for New York-based label YA YI's debut collection by Yayi Chen and Curry Tian. Paying homage to the majorly overlooked labouring body of Asian Immigrant Women in the Western world, the collection doubles up as an extensive research-based project highlighting the collaboration between US-based Asian and American creatives.
Romantic, nostalgic and full of colour; Sam Stone's self-described 'Guerilla' film 'Laca' makes use of abandoned and vacant spaces due to COVID-19, which he fills with fashion from around the world as designs by Richard Malone, Alessandro Trincone, Christoph Rumpf, Adolfo Sanchez, Paolo Idrontino, Troy Dylan Allen and Tortee Roberts come together under Stone's calm and serene vision.
'Mathonmatham: a state of intense euphoria verging on insanity'; the term also lends itself to the title of Beverly Corpuz, Riac Oseph and Sosa Edo's fashion film, which aptly mirrors the feeling through creating an avowed 'unsettling high'.
'R45UK BUDAYA' by filmmaker Kathleen Malay enters a post-alay universe where kitsch culture, the smell of piss and noise from the streets prevail. Consider this a celebration of the unsophisticated and a thank you to those who live on the fringes of society.
'I think i'm a visual person in the sense that I automatically associate colours and things with ideas' these words underpin Callum Toy's 'Self Coloured' narrative - feeding into a CGI-curated world where faces, sounds and surroundings aren't real - but they're based on real life. Faces become larger than life itself as they stand as huge sculptures amid a computer-generated platform; a world where anything is possible.
Poetic and simple in its execution, Molly Maltman's 'Transience' is a black and white fashion film following its two protagonists as they interact with each other on an isolated beach. The film is a collaboration with womenswear designer Daniel Pollitt and explores the middle space between the female body and nature. Engaging in man's obsession with time (and its erosion), 'Transience' explores our existence, its highs and lows combined.
Charlie Soffe's 'Unreal City' was initially intended to be a reaction to the works of Michael-Jon Mizra. Taking its title from T.S Elliot's poem of the same name, Soffe's work mirrors Elliot's descriptive language through a sequence of moments that sees the film end how it starts, answering the question 'How does it look to remember and to forget?'
Zach Beech's fashion film explores the world around us by mirroring a dream that becomes reality.
Sambit Biswas and Saumya Sharma's '1+1=1' is a satirical take on our relationship with everyday objects, delving into themes familiarity, association and dissociation, all of which become commonplace emotions when experiencing the everyday. Objects that become integral to our surroundings eventually fade into the background out of familiarity until one small change that brings them back into the spotlight... why does this happen? How can we become more self aware?

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