Arnolfini Bristol:
5 – 11 March 2012
Glasgow Film Theatre:
12 – 18 March 2012
The Fashion in Film Festival is proud to present highlights from its third edition Birds of Paradise, an intoxicating exploration of costume as a form of cinematic spectacle.
From the lavishly stylised underground films of the 1940s-1970s, to the exquisitely opulent ‘spectacle’ and Orientalist films of the silent era and Hollywood exotica of the 1940s, the programme features those films that most distinctly foreground costume, adornment and styling as vehicles of sensuous pleasure and enchantment, including the premiere of the recently restored La Danseuse Orchidée (dir. Léonce Perret, 1928).
Fashion in Film’s Kinoscope Parlour will also tour to the Arnolfini and the Glasgow Film Theatre, playing a selection of early dance, trick and féerie films of the 1890s and 1900s on three peepshow machines.
Programme Curator: Marketa Uhlirova
Associate Curator: Inga Fraser
Birds of Paradise: Costume as a Cinematic Spectacle is also the title of a forthcoming illustrated book edited by Marketa Uhlirova and published by Koenig Books in Fall 2011. Contributors include Catherine Hindson, Jody Sperling, Giovanni Lista, José Teunissen, Sumiko Higashi, Lucy Fischer, Karl Toepfer, Esther Leslie, Juan Antonio Suarez, Ronald Gregg and Ryan Powell.
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Themes and Events
Kinoscope Parlour
Fashion in Film’s Kinoscope Parlour at the Arnolfini will play a selection of early dance, trick and féerie films of the 1890s and 1900s on three peepshow machines.
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Fashion in Film Festival Glasgow Weekender
This program explores the role of costume in several silent cinema journeys into darkness, all of which are executed in colour.
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Fashion in Film Festival Bristol Weekender
This program explores the role of costume in several silent cinema journeys into darkness, all of which are executed in colour.
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