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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Women’s shoes trigger amorous behaviour and sexual fixations which, in their extreme, can cause a breakdown in social etiquette. Co-curator Christel Tsilibaris will introduce a programme which explores various routines of wearing and showing off shoes for the film camera, focusing on the notions of exhibiting, revealing, voyeurism and morality. Composed of two adverts, a single-situation comic routine, an experimental short and a feature film, this selection of films shows a variety of links between the female shoes and attraction. Starting with displays of shoes as enchanting fashion accessories, the programme goes on to show shoes as ‘characters’ that stimulate and communicate erotic feelings, and finally culminates in a case where shoes substitute for their wearer as an object of sexual desire.

Paris: Women’s Shoes in Lafayette Galleries (Paris Chaussures Femmes aux Galeries Lafayette)
France 1912. Pathé Gaumont.

The Gay Shoe Clerk
USA 1903. Dir Edwin S. Porter. Music composed by THE WOLFMEN (Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou - www.thewolfmen.net).

Amor Pedestre (Love on Foot)
Italy 1914. Dir Marcel Fabre. Music composed by THE WOLFMEN.

Shoes Talk Too (Anche le scarpe parlano)
Italy 1949. La Settimana Incom.

Diary of a Chambermaid
France 1964. Dir Louis Buñuel.

Wednesday 17 May 19:30, Ciné Lumière. Approx 103 min.

The Gay Shoe Clerk, Dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1903

Diary of a Chambermaid, Dir. Louise Bunuel. 1964

Amor Pedestre, Dir. Marcel Fabre. 1914