We have done it again.
The 3rd Fashion in Film Festival launched across leading London venues on Wednesday 3 December 2010.

The first ever UK screening of Jose Rodriguez Soltero's stunning film Lupe (after the tragic latina Lupe Velez) takes place on Sunday 5 December, introduced by the Director of Film programming at Yale University, Ronald Gregg who knew Rodriguez Soltero personally.

Legendary London fashion designer Pam Hogg is as cutting-edge as ever. She gives us her picks of this year’s festival.

Second collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image - now bigger and better than ever!
launching in New York in Spring 2011. Our partners are MoMI's Chief Curator David Schwartz, Ron Gregg at Yale University and Eugenia Paulicelli at The Graduate Center, CUNY. We are very excited.

Fashion in Film has been invited to create a new installation for the 2011 edition of Arnhem Mode Biannale under the Creative Direction of Joff Moolhuizen. Watch this space!

Limited edition catalogue
The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival “If Looks Could Kill” limited edition catalogue is selling out fast. Available online from The Horse Hospital and SU Arts, and in store at Tate Modern book shop, BFI Southbank Film Store and Cinéphilia.

Texts now published online
All texts from our first catalogue (now sold out) are now available here.

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BIRDS OF PARADISE

1 - 12 December 2010

“Fashion in Film Festival’s third edition ‘Rare Birds of Paradise’ is showing so many great and rare films this December and there just isn’t enough time to fit them all in!” – Pam Hogg

Photo © Emma Summerton

Legendary London fashion designer Pam Hogg is as cutting-edge as ever. Here she gives us her picks of this year’s festival:

Salomé
USA 1923. Dir Charles Bryant.
With Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis.
Costume and sets Natacha Rambova. c.74min

Saturday 4 December BFI Southbank 20.40 NFT2
Saturday 11 December BFI Southbank 18:30 NFT2

Moulin Rouge
Great Britain 1928. Dir E.A. Dupont.
With Olga Tschechowa, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin. c.90min

Tuesday 7 December BFI Southbank 20:20 NFT2

Puce Moment
USA 1949. Dir Kenneth Anger.
With Yvonne Marquis. Costumes Kenneth Anger.

Friday 3 December Tate Modern

The Horse Hospital showcases the link between underground film and its direct and indirect inspirations from mainstream Hollywood cinema. Highlights include a mystery celebration of one of cinema’s greatest wizards, a screening of James Bidgood’s stunning oeuvre Pink Narcissus (1971) and Robert Siodmak’s trashy exotica Cobra Woman (1944) starring Jack Smith’s idol Maria Montez.

Unless otherwise stated, tickets £7, concessions £5
(www.thehorsehospital.com)

You absolutely must come dressed as your own madness if you wish to be admitted to the Fashion in Film Festival's opening ceremony, a special film club night co-hosted exclusively for your pleasure by the brililant Ken Hollings and a pair of London legends Princess Julia and Felicity Hayward. The evening will kick off with a mystery double bill screening featuring one of cinema's greatest mavericks, plus a fiendish mix of lavish costumes and masks, dark rituals and a profusion of sequins and sparkles.

With introductory notes by Ryan Powell, lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London.

Pink Narcissus
USA 1971. Dir James Bidgood.
With Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks. Costume and set design James Bidgood. c.71 min

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The Ziegfeld Girl
USA 1941. Dir Robert Z. Leonard.
With Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, James Stewart.
Costumes Adrian, sets Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye, choreography Busby Berkeley. c.133 min

Cobra Woman
USA 1944. Dir Robert Siodmak.
With Maria Montez, John Hall, Sabu. Costumes Vera West, sets Russel A. Gausman, Ira Webb. c.117 min

Plus a DJ set by turntable goddesses the Broken Hearts

The Tate strand pairs early film treasures with experimental films of the American Underground to reveal the opulence, artifice and excess in both. Sumptuous masterpieces by Segundo de Chomón, Gaston Velle and Ferdinand Zecca join riotous explosions in colour, costume and camp by legendary experimental filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Ron Rice, José Rodriguez-Soltero, Steven Arnold and performer Mario Montez. Co-curated by Marketa Uhlirova, Ronald Gregg and Stuart Comer.

Tickets £5, concessions £4
(www.tate.org.uk/modern)

Tit for Tat (La Peine du talion)
France 1906. Dir Gaston Velle, Pathé Frères.

Metempsychosis (Métempsycose)
France 1907. Dir Segundo de Chomón, Pathé Frères

Puce Moment
USA 1949. Dir Kenneth Anger.
With Yvonne Marquis. Costumes Kenneth Anger.

The Pearl Fisher (Le pêcheur de perles)
France 1907. Dir Ferdinand Zecca. Pathé Frères.

Normal Love
USA 1963. Dir Jack Smith. With Diana Baccus, Mario Montez, Beverly Grant. Costumes Jack Smith and actors.

Introduced by Dominic Johnson, Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London

Erotic fragment
1920s. Anonymous.
(From the archive of EYE Film Institute Netherlands)

Salomania
Germany 2009. Dir Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.
With Yvonne Rainer, Wu Ingrid Tsang.

Flaming Creatures
USA 1963. Dir Jack Smith.
With Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Mario Montez, Joel Markman.
Costumes Jack Smith and actors.

The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique
USA 1967. Dir Steven Arnold.
Costumes Steven Arnold.

Introduced by Ronald Gregg, Senior Lecturer and Programming Director, Film Studies at Yale University.

Lupe
USA 1966. Dir José Rodríguez-Soltero.
With Mario Montez, Charles Ludlam.
Costumes Montez Creations.

Chumlum
USA 1964. Dir Ron Rice.
With Jack Smith, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez.

The Barbican programme explores the hypnotising allure of film costume, as worn by the diva, the showgirl and the dancing fairies and spectres of the silent era. Highlights include the screenings of Nino Oxilia’s Italian masterpiece Rapsodica Satanica (1915/1917) featuring one of Italy’s original film divas Lyda Borelli, Germaine Dulac’s Orientalist film La Princesse Mandane (1928) and Michael Curtiz’s Red Heels (1925). All of these magnificent European silent films are rarely screened in the UK.

Tickets £10.50, Barbican online £8.50, concessions £7.50
(www.barbican.org.uk/film)

Writer, journalist and lecturer Anna Battista will introduce the Italian diva of the 1910s and fashion designer Mariano Fortuny whose dresses appear in the featurette Rapsodia Satanica.

With live piano accompaniment from Lily Henley.

Rapsodia Satanica
Italy 1915/1917. Dir Nino Oxilia.
With Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini.
Alba’s gowns by Mariano Fortuny.

The Red Spectre (Le Spectre rouge)
France 1907. Dir Segundo de Chomón, Pathé Frères.
Costumes and sets Segundo de Chomón.
Stencil-coloured.

The Pillar of Fire (La Danse du feu)
France 1899. Dir Georges Méliès, Star Films.
With Jeanne d’Alcy.
Costumes and sets Georges Méliès.
Hand-coloured.

La Création de la serpentine (La Creación de la Serpentina)
France 1909. Dir Segundo de Chomón, Pathé Frères.
Costumes and sets Segundo de Chomón.
Black and white.

The Butterflies (Le Farfalle)
Italy 1907. Dir Unknown.
Società Anonima Cines.
Tinted and hand-coloured.

Saturday 4 December Barbican
18.00
With live accompaniment from Stephen Horne.

Sunday 5 December Barbican
16:00

With live piano accompaniment from Jane Gardner.

Sunday 5 December Barbican
18:00

With live piano accompaniment from John Sweeney.

BFI Southbank presents some of the most visually compelling films made in America and Europe during the entire silent film period, highlighting the marvellous and the fantastic with such rarely screened gems as Albert Capellani’s The Red Lantern (1919), Jean Durand’s l'île d'amour (1927), Alexandre Volkoff’s Secrets of the East (1928), the recent restoration of Joë Francis’s La Revue des Revues (1927) including colour sequences and Cecil B. DeMille’s Male and Female (1919). All silent films in the programme will be accompanied by live music.

Unless otherwise stated, tickets £9/£6.50, BFI members £7.60/£5.25
(www.bfi.org.uk)

Showcasing an array of turn-of-the-century butterfly and serpentine dances, magical tricks and costume transformations, many from the BFI National Archive, Fashion in Film Director Marketa Uhlirova welcomes some of the most influential scholars of early film to explore these enduring works.

With live piano accompaniment from Costas Fotopoulos.

Friday 3 December BFI Southbank 18.20 NFT2
Friday 10 December BFI Southbank 20.40 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from John Sweeney.

Friday 3 December BFI Southbank 20.40 NFT2
Saturday 11 December BFI Southbank 16.00 NFT2, with introduction by Inga Fraser, Associate Curator of Fashion in Film.

With live piano accompaniment from Cyrus Gabrysch on Friday 3 and Andrew Youdell on Saturday 11.

Thursday 2 December BFI Southbank 18.10 NFT2
Wednesday 8 December BFI Southbank 20.30 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from Stephen Horne on Thursday 2 and Andrew Youdell on Wednesday 8.

Saturday 4 December BFI Southbank 20.40 NFT2
Saturday 11 December BFI Southbank 18:30 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from Costas Fotopoulos on Saturday 4 and Andrew Youdell on Saturday 11.

Sunday 5 December BFI Southbank 20.20 NFT2, with an introduction by Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and curator of V&A’s Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes.
Sunday 12 December BFI Southbank 15.30 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from Cyrus Gabrysch on Sunday 5 and Stephen Horne on Sunday 12.

Tuesday 7 December BFI Southbank 20:20 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from Stephen Horne.

Thursday 9 December BFI Southbank 20.40 NFT2, with introductory remarks on Orientalism by Sarah Cheang, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion.
Sunday 12 December BFI Southbank 18.20 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from John Sweeney on Thursday 9 and Stephen Horne on Sunday 12.

Wednesday 8 December BFI Southbank 18:00 NFT2
Saturday 11 December BFI Southbank 20:40 NFT2

With live piano accompaniment from from Neil Brand on Wednesday 8 and John Sweeney on Saturday 11.

Kinoscope Parlour

15 November - 14 December 2010

Aldwych | Bloomsbury | Becontree | Hackney | Kilburn | Lewisham | Southbank | South Kensington | Upton Park | Walthamstow | Wapping | Wood Green

Co-curated by Inga Fraser.

Part of The 3rd Fashion in Film Festival, the Kinoscope Parlour is our London-wide installation of six peephole machines at twelve different locations launching in the run-up to the festival.

Hemline: the Moving Screen

Somerset House
1 - 12 December 2010

Fashion in Film is proud to present Hemline: the Moving Screen, a newly commissioned artwork by the award-winning artist collective Jason Bruges Studio. The captivating installation on show at Somerset House is our joint homage to the pioneering innovations of the belle époque dancer Loïe Fuller whose hugely influential costume and spectacle sorcery encapsulates some of the spirit behind the festival’s third edition, Birds of Paradise.

Fashion in Film Workshop Series

London
2 November – 10 December 2010

Funded by Film London and Arts Council England, Fashion in Film is running a series of workshops for 16 to 18-year-olds in full-time education exploring the themes of this years festival.