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This programme celebrates the secret life of clothes, and the enigmatic qualities that emanate from the filmic treatment of their materiality. Including extraordinary footage by filmmakers and artists such as Georges Méliès, Hans Richter and Erwin Wurm, it is a collection of film techniques which set clothes’ empty shells in motion. Through various modes of displaying they allow clothes to assume new shapes or spin off into abstraction. Clothes and cloth are presented in rituals such as folding and unfolding, touching and feeling, soaking and inflating, transforming, flying or dancing. They are independent, at least to a degree, of the body parts that normally give them meaning. By obscuring their immediate function, films in this programme reveal clothes as estranged, dreamlike, playful and elusive—making them potent carriers of fascination, desire, emotion and sensual pleasure.
With an introduction by programme co-curator Marketa Uhlirova +
artist-filmmaker Anna-Nicole Ziesche in conversation with fashion designer Hamish Morrow
FILMS FEATURED:
Warner Corset Advertisement
USA, after 1910. Dir Thomas A. Edison.
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk)
Germany 1928. Dir Hans Richter.
Going to Bed Under Difficulties (Le Déshabillage impossible)
France 1900. Dir Georges Méliès.
In a Hurry to Catch a Train (Monsieur et madame sont presees)
France 1901. Dir Ferdinand Zecca, Pathé Frères.
The Extinct World of Gloves (Zaniklý svit rukavic)
Czechoslovakia 1982. Dir Jirí Bárta.
A Week in Film (Týden ve filmu) no. 12.
Czechoslovakia 1947
Tough Stockings
GB 1960. Pathé News.
States of Mind and Dress
UK 2002. Dir Anna-Nicole Ziesche.
59 Positions (59 Stellungen)
Austria 1992. Dir Erwin Wurm.
Chapels (Bernhard Willhelm)
Belgium/France 2002. Dir Diane Pernet.
One and One Now Make Two While Before It Only Made One (Un et un a present ca fait deux avant ca faisait qu’un)
Belgium 2000. Dir Marie France and Patricia Martin. Approx 54 min.
Tuesday 16 May 20:30, The ICA, cinema 1
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59 Positions, dir. Erwin Wurm, 1992
Going to Bed Under Difficulties, dir. Georges Melies. 1900
The Extinct World of Gloves, dir. Jiri Barta. 1982
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