fashion in film festival: full schedule

Arnhem Mode Biennale

15-17 June 2007

Friday 15 June in Steenfabriek
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
With lecture by Rebecca Breuer

Powerful commentary on 1960s fashion and cinematography; Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966, 102 mins., 35mm. William Klein) is an uncompromising parody. Like Antonioni’s Blow-Up, it takes a critical approach to the worlds of fashion and media. Klein (an on-and-off fashion photographer) was a fashion-industry insider, and thus ideally equipped to launch into a thorough investigation of the subject.

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? dir. William Klein, France 1966, copyright William Klein

Saturday, 16 June, 16:00 in Focus
"Assuming a Pose" (short film program)
With lecture by Anneke Smelik, professor at the University of Nijmegen

Four Beautiful Pairs (1904, Directed by A.E. Weed for American Mutoscope and Biograph.); How Mannequins Are Made (Italy, 1941,Giornale Luce); Mannequins for Sale (1938, Pathé News); School for Mannequins (1944, Pathé News); Volume (France, 2000, Jean-Pierre Khazem .); I Feel (2005, Jean-François Carly/SHOWstudio); It's Like Being (Belgium, 2003, Marie-France and Patricia Martin ), Photo Shooting (UK, 2001, Jen Wu.); Smooth with the Rough (1944, British newsreel ); Shelley Fox 14 (UK, 2002, Shelley Fox/SHOWstudio ).

Total running time: 51 minutes. Posing, dressing up, staging, and masking are at the heart of this program, which plays on cinema's preoccupation with moments where reality meets fiction. "Posing" connotes not just a position or posture of the body, but also artificiality and pretense.

Volume, dir.Jean-Pierre Khazem, France 2000,copyright Jean-Pierre Khazem

Saturday,16 June, 19:30 in Focus
"Shoes, Eroticism, and Fetish"
Introduction by curator Christel Tsilibaris

Diary of a Chambermaid 1964, 98 mins., 35mm. Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Jeanne Moreau. Preceded by Paris: Women's Shoes in Lafayette Galleries (1912, Pathé-Gaumont), The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903, Edwin S. Porter. Music composed by The Wolfmen), Amor Pedestre (1914, Marcel Fabre. Music composed by The Wolfmen), Shoes Talk Too (1949, La Settimana Incom)

Total running time of short films: 12 mins. Women's shoes trigger amorous behavior and sexual fixations that can cause a breakdown in social etiquette. These films explore various routines of wearing and showing off shoes for the camera, focusing on notions of exhibition, voyeurism, and lust. In the Buñuel film, Jeanne Moreau is a maid at a country estate whose eccentric inhabitants include a boot fetishist.

Diary of a Chambermaid, dir. Louis Bunuel, France 1964, courtesy BFI

Sunday, 17 June, 14:00 in Focus
"The Enigma of Clothing"
Illustrated talk by curator Marketa Uhlirova

The Extinct World of Gloves (1982. Imported 35mm print. Jirí Bárta.); Ghosts before Breakfast (1928, Directed by Hans Richter); Going to Bed under Difficulties (1900, George Méliès); In a Hurry to Catch a Train (1901, Ferdinand Zecca); Enfant Terrible (2000, Anna-Nicole Ziesche); 59 Positions (1992, Erwin Wurm); One and One Now Make Two While Before It Only Made One (2000, Marie-France and Patricia Martin); Chapels (Bernhard Willhelm) (2002, Diane Pernet); Warner Corset Advertisement (1910, Thomas Edison); A Week in Film (1947, Czech newsreel); Tough Stockings (1960, British newsreel); Dress Rehearsal and Karola 2 (1979-80, Noll Brinckman).

Total running time: 54 mins. Video and film. This program celebrates the secret life of clothes and the enigmatic qualities that emanate from the filmic treatment of their materiality. Clothes and cloth, when filmed independent of the body parts that normally give them meaning, are revealed as estranged, dreamlike, playful, and elusive—making them potent carriers of fascination, desire, emotion, and sensual pleasure. Musical score by Karaoke Tundra/Muteme.cz.

The Extinct World of Gloves, dir. Jiri Barta, Czechoslovakia 1982, courtesy NFA, Czech Republic

Sunday, 17 June, 16:00 in Focus
Paris Is Burning

1991, 71 mins. Directed by Jennie Livingston. A surprise hit when it opened in New York, this documentary reveals the downtown community of black and Latino drag queens who invented "voguing" and competed in lavish drag balls that both embraced and spoofed the world of high fashion.

Paris is Burning, dir. Jennie Livingston, 1990
courtesy BFI

Sunday, 17 June, 19:30 in Focus
Liquid Sky

1982, 112 mins., 35mm. Directed by Slava Tsukerman. In this time-capsule cult favorite, with plenty of early-1980s fashion, a pleasure-seeking alien lands in downtown New York and gets caught up in a world of casual sex and heroin abuse with androgynous hipsters Margaret and Larry (both played by Anne Carlisle). Director Slava Tsukerman, cinematographer Yuri Neyman, and production and costume designer Marina Levikova will introduce the screening.

Liquid Sky, dir. Slava Tsukerman, USA 1982, courtesy Yuri Neyman

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