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Fashion in Film Festival's Birds of Paradise programme will be touring to Bristol and Glasgow in March 2012. Find out more here.
- - - Fashion in Film's Kinoscopes to depart on tour. Find out more about their London-wide installation.
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At the heart of this programme is cinema’s preoccupation with moments where reality meets fiction. For this, fashion’s acts of posing, dressing up, staging and masking offer ideal material. In a number of languages the word pose connotes not only a position or posture of the body but also artificiality and falsity in one’s conduct, in other words, pretence. By imitating cultural norms, models who pose become oddly reassuring fabrications. The collective observer moulds them as if they were inanimate objects. Similarly in this programme, the rich source of fascination is the confusion between the artificial body of a shop dummy and the real one of a poser who is shown in the moving image as momentarily immobilised and thus conspicuously exposed. Four Beautiful Pairs How Mannequins Are Made (Come si fabbricano i manichini)
Mannequins à vendre School for Mannequins Volume
I Feel It’s Like Being (C’est comme etre)
Photo Shooting Smooth with the Rough
Shelley Fox 14
Screening will be followed by Fashion photographer Jean-François Carly and fashion designer Shelley Fox in conversation with Penny Martin, Editor-in-Chief of SHOWstudio. Sunday 21 May 17:00, The Horse Hospital.
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 It's Like Being, 2003. Dir. Marie France and Patricia Martin |
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