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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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11-12 November 2011 Borrowing the suggestive title 'Secrets of the Orient' from the 1928 German-French studio spectacular, the symposium at Yale University focused on the use of fashion, costume and mise en scène in the construction of an Orientalist imaginary in Western as well as Eastern cinema. |
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27 October 2011 Fashion in Film's Inga Fraser takes a fresh look at some films presented in 2006 and more in light of contemporary fashion film production. A selection of short films dating from 1926 to the present day, the programme examines different approaches taken by artists, fashion image-makers and designers who present clothing via the moving image.
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1 - 3 July 2011 Fashion in Film's response to the 2011 Arnhem Mode Biennale was a 12-channel colour-classified installation featuring footage of monochromatic dress drawn from over a hundred films, covering a huge variety of forms and genres. Award-winning musician Daniel Pemberton responded created a new sound piece that accompanied the installation. |
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5 - 22 May 2011 Fashion in Film curated a series of shorts for the inaugural video festival at the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre in Copenhagen. The festival celebrated new Danish video art, international video, music videos, fashion videos and VJ-arrangements. Inga Fraser travelled to Denmark to introduce Fashion in Film's selection.
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15 April - 2 May 2011 The New York edition of Birds of Paradise presented many rare screenings including Nino Oxilia’s Rapsodia Satanica (1915/1917), a newly restored print of Jack Smith’s Normal Love (1964) and Jose Rodriguez-Soltero’s Lupe (1966) alongside favourites such as Cecil B. DeMille’s Male and Female (1919) and Erich von Stroheim’s Merry Widow (1925), as well as talks, film introductions and seminars at Museum of the Moving Image and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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1 - 12 December 2010 From the exquisitely opulent films of the silent era, to the sybaritic, lavishly stylised underground films of the 1940s -1970s, costume has, for a long time, played a significant role in cinema as a vital medium for showcasing such basic properties of film as movement, change, light and colour. The festival programme explored episodes in film history which most distinctly foreground costume, adornment and styling as vehicles of sensuous pleasure and enchantment. |
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15 November - 14 December 2010 The Kinoscope Parlour was a London-wide installation of six peephole machines at twelve different locations during the 3rd Fashion in Film Festival. Designed by Mark Garside, the Kinoscope is a contemporary re-imagining of the kinetoscope invented by Thomas A. Edison and W.K.L. Dickson in the early 1890s. The Kinoscope Parlour featured costume and dance fims by early cinema pioneers Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers, Thomas Edison, Gaston Velle, Segundo de Chomón, J.H. Paul, Ferdinand Zecca and Alice Guy-Blaché. |
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1 - 12 December 2010 In partnership with Somerset House, Fashion in Film presented Hemline: the Moving Screen, a newly commissioned artwork by the award-winning artist collective Jason Bruges Studio. The captivating installation was our joint homage to the spectacular and innovative use of costume by the belle époque dancer Loïe Fuller. Jason Bruges Studio created a light sculpture using a three-dimensional volume as a ‘moving screen’ to approximate the swirling movements of fabric in a serpentine dance. The sculpture was responsive and transformed as a result of the number and proximity of visitors in the exhibition space. |
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Friday 18th September 2009 Fashion in Film’s Inga Fraser presented a new take on some of the themes we explored in our first festival Between Stigma and Enigma in 2006, as part of The Art of Fashion: Installing Illusions symposium in Rotterdam. |
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Summer/Autumn 2009 5 hand-picked high-profile contemporary artists have generously donated work to help raise money for the next Fashion in Film Festival in 2010. More... |
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Friday 20 March 2009 Once again we are teamed up with the V&A to bring to you a fascinating (and fashionable) slice of social history. We screened Elsa Kvamme's moving documentary A Lady with a Hat (1999), screened during our 1st Fashion in Film Festival in 2006, and this time presented as part of a symposium at the V&A. |
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Thursday 8 January 2009 Fashion in Film presented Beyond Espionage programme in a new rendition on Thursday 8 January 2009 featuring a Q&A with Djurdja Bartlett, at the BFI Southbank. Programme curated by Renate Stauss and Marketa Uhlirova and presented in association with Central Saint Martins College and Friday Late / Cold War Modern at the V&A. |
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Friday 28 - Sunday 30
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Friday 21 - Saturday 22 November 2008 Fashion in Film's programme of newsreels and documentaries exploring the rhetorics of "socialist fashion", were screened again as part of the V&A Cold War Culture International Conference which was organised in conjunction with the V&A's exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70. This major international conference brought together many exciting thinkers on this post-war period to reflect and offer new perspectives.
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31 October 2008 Fashion in Film presented a new programme
at French Connection Friday Late at the V&A,
in conjunction with Cold War Modern. A selection of some of the most eloquent
newsreels and documentaries from post-war East Germany and Czechoslovakia were screened,
exploring the rhetorics of "socialist fashion". More... |
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- 31 May 2008 The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival in London went down a storm and was visited by over 4,000 people. The festival programme explored the compelling links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence. For more information and full programme click here. |
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Sweatshops in Focus On the second weekend of October 2007 Fashion in Film Festival presented a two-day event focusing on the troublesome issue of sweatshops. This was a unique opportunity to see two poignant documentaries, plus some militant art, and participate in a panel discussion that concluded the sessions. More...
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Frankie : Exclusive UK release Fashion in Film Festival teamed up with Cine lumiere of the French Institute to bring you Frankie. This remarkable film is a recent feature-film debut by Fabienne Berthaud. It tells an insightful story of the defeat of one fashion model (starring the beautiful Diane Kruger who proves she can do apathetic really well), with a delicate soundtrack by the American duo Coco Rosie.
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15-17 June 2007 In June Fashion in Film Festival was happy together with Arnhem's Mode Biennale. The theme of the festival's second edition was Happy Fashion, celebrating fashion's positive vibe. The curators' interpretation of happiness seems more to do with the conditions of rawness, risk taking and provocation - all part of the creative process - rather than fairy-talish bliss. Mode Biennale included a never ending catwalk in the city of Arnhem, plus work by Viktor and Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Cassette Playa, Henrik Vibskov and Peter Pilotto among many others. Arnhem Mode Biennale press release
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body/language: fashion meets graphic design Fashion in Film Festival was featured at AIGA's conference in New York on Saturday 24 March 2007. For more details visit bodylanguage.aigany.org |
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17 to 25 March 2007 Fashion in Film Festival collaborated with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) to present its inaugural edition Between Stigma and Enigma in New York. New additions to the London programme were the films Unzipped, dir, Douglas Keeve (1995) and Dress Rehearsal and Karola 2, dir, Noll Brinckman (1979-1980). One of the highlights of the series was the screening of Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky, followed by a Q&A with the director, cinematographer and costume designer.
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24-26 November 2006 Fashion in Film Festival will
contribute a screening to The Death of
Taste conference held at the ICA (24-25 November 2006).
With other contributors including Dame
Vivienne Westwood, Bodymap’s
Stevie Stewart and Kim Jones.
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27 and 28 September 2006 Two of our Fashion in Film Festival's programmes, The Model and the World of Fashion and The Enigma of the Fashion Object, will be screened in Kino Svetozor, Prague, Czech Republic on 27th and 28th September 2006. The festival director Marketa Uhlirova will introduce each screening with a talk. This project is part of the TRANZIT programme.
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14-27 May 2006 The 1st Fashion in Film Festival sent London viewers on blissfully satisfying and fickle journeys peppered with fine clothes and foxy attitudes. The programme titled Between Stigma and Enigma explored the ambiguous relationship between fashion and film. For more information and full programme click here. You can still buy a copy of our 2006 catalogue with articles by festival curators and guest writers about various aspects of fashion in film. Only a handful of copies left. |
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Special features archive
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Join us on a journey through the exceptionally bold fashions
of Slava Tsukerman's 1982 film Liquid Sky. Images courtesy of
cinematographer Yuri Neyman and production and costume designer
Marina Levikova.
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Welcome to the strange world of 'La Femme', a couture salon and its mannequins, elegant on the surface and ugly underneath. A voyage through Arne Mattsson's viaully fantastic film Mannequin in Red (1958). Images courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute. |
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| A journey through a distant 21st Century world where lusts for violence have led to the legalisation of murder through a game called 'The Big Hunt'. Elio Petri's The 10th Victim (1965) can only be described as an uber-cool italian '60s pop art sci-fi comedy extravaganza. Click here. |
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