If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence More… 10 - 31 May 2008 Sharon O'Connor, Managing Director of Oasis comments: 'We are very excited to be sponsoring the second Fashion in Film Festival. These rarely seen films dating back to 1908 present us with a source of iconic fashion images which have visibly influenced the contemporary scene. The unique programme of new commissions highlights the creativity and originality of emerging talent and design, values shared and supported by Oasis' 'As a partner of the 2nd Fashion in Film Festival, Central Saint Martins is once again pleased to support the continuing research into the theory and practice of fashion, uniquely embodied in this wonderfully thrilling and stylish collection of films. The role of fashion, costume and styling in films spanning a hundred years reveals the special position that fashion holds in locating the drama of life, society and the human experience.' (Anne Smith, Dean of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martins) |
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fashion in film festival at MoMI The MoMI programme ran on two weekends from 17-25 March and presented a wide-ranging film series including lectures, personal appearances, and screenings of features, documentaries, silent films, video art, and newsreels, including Pat Kirkham's lecture on Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and Drake Stutesman's lecture on Howard Hawks's Fig Leaves (1926). The theme of this dynamic programme was the deeply ambiguous relationship between film and fashion. The Festival investigateed how the moving image represents and interprets fashion as a concept, industry, and cultural form. Some of the films included in this series were William Klein's Who are You, Polly Maggoo?, Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky, Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning, Bruce Weber's Chop Suey, Howard Hawks's Fig Leaves and David Byrne's directorial debut True Stories. Between Stigma and Enigma was curated by Marketa Uhlirova and Christel Tsilibaris, with guest curators Roger K. Burton (festival co-founder), Alistair O'Neill, Adrian Garvey and Edward Barber. The programme was organized for the Museum by Chief Curator David Schwartz and Assistant Curator Livia Bloom.
Museum of the Moving Image For admissions, museum hours, travel information visit the Museum website www.movingimage.us |
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