Fashion in Film Festival's Birds of Paradise programme will be touring to Bristol and Glasgow in March 2012. Find out more here.

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Fashion in Film's Kinoscopes to depart on tour. Find out more about their London-wide installation.

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Limited edition catalogue
The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival If Looks Could Kill limited edition catalogue is selling out fast. Available online, and in store at Tate Modern book shop, BFI Southbank Film Store and Cinéphilia.

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Texts now published online
All texts from our first catalogue (now sold out) are now available here.

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Taking Kenneth Anger’s iconic Puce Moment (1949) as a departure point, this programme concentrates on the idea of a woman dressing and undressing in her own private space. Turning such a daily activity into a film changes the most ordinary activity into something less ordinary. Sequences of dressing and undressing span the history of film, allowing much-desired glimpses of intimate moments carrying an erotic charge. Anger’s, Visconti’s and Fleury’s films also disconnect the ritual of dressing from its daily purpose but what distinguishes them is that they are unconcerned with the erotic. Rather, they pull focus on a sense of disengagement and introspection. (Dressing and Undressing is guest-curated by fashion historian Alistair O’Neill)

Puce Moment
USA 1949. Dir Kenneth Anger.

Twinkle
France 1992. Dir Sylvie Fleury.

Boccaccio ’70 -The Job (Il Lavoro)
Italy 1962. Dir Luchino Visconti.

Friday 26 May 20:30, The ICA, Cinema 1. approx. 96 min.

Twinkle, Dir. Sylvie Fleury, 1992

Boccaccio '70 - The Job, 1962. Dir. Luchino Visconti