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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If you don’t come in on Sunday, don’t come in on Monday: is contemporary clothing manufacture coming clean? The Horse Hospital Curated by Christel Tsilibaris
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Friday 12 October 2007, 8.00 pm Knitoscope Testimonies video piece by Cat Mazza, 2006 (2,58 min) Screening followed by a Q&A session with director Amie Williams Knitoscope Testimonies is a computer-animated programme that translates the artist’s hand-knitted panels into moving images. The video focuses on labour movement, continuing Mazza’s involvement with anti-sweatshop activism. For more information on Cat Mazza’s projects visit www.microrevolt.org No Sweat (dir. Amie Williams, 2006) takes us to Los Angeles, the largest and most dynamic area of garment production in North America. The film follows two self-proclaimed ethical labels American Apparel and SweatX T-shirt which have been widely recognised for providing fair working conditions in their factories. Founded by the entrepreneur Dov Charney and built from the ground up, American Apparel’s anti-sweatshop rhetoric broadcasts care and workers' benefits such as healthcare, paid leave, company-subsidised lunches, free English language classes and even on-site masseurs. Similarly, the T-shirt company SweatX, with a start-up capital of 2.5million US dollars funded by Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen, started with a determination to operate ethically. No Sweat takes us behind the scenes of these two ‘worker-friendly’ companies and unveils a different, much more distressing reality.
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Saturday 13 October 2007, 7.00 pm China Blue, dir. Micha X. Peled, 2005 (86 min) Clandestinely shot, China Blue (dir. Micha X. Peled, 2005) follows the 17-year-old factory worker Jasmine and her friends through the meanders of a blue-jeans factory in China. Jasmine, who had to leave her home province for a job in the city, is soon bitterly disillusioned with the harsh working environment she encounters. Despite appallingly low wages, Jasmine and her fellow workers are constrained to work around the clock in order to meet the tight delivery schedules imposed on them by big orders from the West. Fined if found asleep and forbidden to strike, Jasmine and her friends need to find alternatives to their exhaustion in order to keep going. China Blue is a poignant testimony to the persistent inhumanity of the Chinese garment manufacture and a comment on the economic pressures applied by the global fashion industry.
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