Jaime Rubiano & Jason Last

once more.

Cake

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Director: Stephen Blaise
Designer: AF Vandevorst
Creative Director: Catherine Camille Cushman
Cinematographer: Ian Bloom
Stylist: David Dumas
Featuring: Flynn @ Wilhelmina
Hair: Raymond McLaren @ MILDRED INC for Stephen Knoll
Make up: Nicole Potter
Research: Bon Duke, Annie Sui
Music: Courtesy of DeWolf

Watch it.

Fashion Film....

Business of Fashion stellt seine TOP10 Fashion Films der Saison vor. Darunter Guy Bourdin.



Alle weiteren sehenswerten Filme hier.

Pepperminta

Happy Birthday Julia.

Underneath from Above

Dass Modefilme hip sind, wissen wir nicht erst seit A Shaded View on Fashionfilm und Fly. Viele Label haben das bewegte Bild als adaquaten Ersatz/Ergänzung zur klassischen Laufstegpräsentation entdeckt. Gerade junge Designer, wie auch Compley Geometries, nutzen Film gern als kostengünstigere Vorstellungsform. Butterfly Soulfire nun auch und so präsentierte das Berliner Desingduo vorgestern in Zusammenarbeit mit Lexposure in einem meiner Berliner Lieblingsläden, dem Four Store, den Film zu ihrer kommenden SS2010 Kollektion. Für all jene Unglücklichen, wie ich, die nicht zur Premiere live vor Ort sein konnten, gibt es den Film nun auch online zu sehen.

Interval

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Ein neuer Film auf Fashion 16x9 mit Ali Micheals, Daria Strokous und Olga Maliouk in Klamotten von Hussein Chalayan. Weitere Informationen hier. Also der neongelbe Nagellack ist schon sehr heiß!

Das Modelbusiness ist ein Arschloch!

Das ist keine Neuigkeit. Selbst Karl Lagerfeld sagte noch gestern bei Johannes B. Kerner, das Jobs in der Modebranche Berufe sind, "die auf Ungerechtigkeit basieren. Das ist etwas, das jedem logischen Konzept entgeht." Solange man das weiß, wenn man sich auf das schlitterige Parkett begibt, ist das in Ordnung, aber was, wenn nicht...? Was ist, wenn kleine osteuropäische Mädchen zu Massen unter falschen Versprechungen aus den Armen ihrer sorgenden Mütter gerissen werden und in den nimmersatten, fauligen Rachen der Industrie geworfen werden? Jung, unwissend, naiv mit gespreizten Beinen in aufreizenden Posen pornografische Modebilder produzieren? Wird #zensursula künftig auch die Modebranche treffen? Minderjährige in den Händen perverser Fotografen hart an der Grenze zur Pädophilie? "Ab Größe 42 ist das keine Mode mehr, da zieht man sich an. Im Grunde muss es 34 sein", sagte Herr Lagerfeld noch kürzlich. Weitere Zitate aus dem Interview hier.

Jedenfalls hat das Ex-Model Sara Ziff einen Film zum Thema gemacht. Es werden Fragen angesprochen wie "Sind die Models zu jung?", "Sind die Models zu dünn?", "Sind die Models alle superreich?" etc. allesamt Fragen, die einen eben so interessieren, wenn man sich ein wenig mit der Modelbranche befasst. Gesehen habe ich das gute Stück (noch) nicht. Viele Ausschnitte aus dem Werk gibt es aber bei Pedestrian.tv zu sehen.

David Lynch: Interviewproject

via: Pedestrian.tv

Interessiert uns das wirklich...? Alle drei Tage eine neue Episode, hier.

Igor Zimmermann

Beim 9 Festival für Mode und Fotografie in Wien, dass dieser Tage beginnt, wird auch Diane Pernet mit ihrer Modefilmreihe A Shaded View on Fashion Film eine essentielle Rolle spielen. Die Grande Dame der Modeblogger, die selbst einmal Film studierte, reist mit ihrem Zirkus durch die Modemetropolen und beglückt solche wie mich, die schon immer eine Schwäche für Kunst auf Zelluloid und seine Nachfolger hatten...

HARUKI MURAKAMI'S TONY TAKITANI

A hauntingly beautiful film with a clothes obsessed woman and her loving husband who can't deal with her death and a hauntingly beautiful pair of shoes...
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Ein verstörend schöner Film über eine kleidersüchtige Frau und ihren sie liebenden Ehemann, der ihren frühen Tod nicht verkraften kann und ein verstörend schönes Paar Schuhe... Den deutschen Trailer gibt es hier zu sehen.


filmstill made by me

myspace ::: sputnik

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Very inspiring space by 28 years old Luis Otero aka sputnik from Colombia. Myspace is a nice invention but it definitely isn't easy to get attention (which some of the contributions really deserve!). By posting the pages I stumble upon I hope to put at least some light on the myspace chaos...
The other day I presented you the space of San Francisco based photographer charley, today it's a filmmaker who loves to take photos of his friends (and they are really good...):

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Who are you and what do you do?

My name is Luis Otero. I’m 28 years old and I’m a filmaker. Three years ago I founded a film company called Palo Alto films. Our first film, Al Final del Espectro (At the end of the Spectra), was a total success in Colombia. The film will also be remake, produced and starred by Nicole Kidman. It will also be directed by my best friend and partner, J.F. Orozco, who directed the original version.



I also write and develop new screenplays and work in television as a director of photography. Right now I’m directing the photography for a tv series called Tiempo Final (Final Time), for Fox LA.

But, who I am?? That’s confusing. I really wish to produce art and live of it. (Thou, I don't know what art is at all!!), but I really need to express someting through my photos and drawings.
I’m not really in touch with the so called artistic world, with the local scene at least. Like I said, I'm in the film bussiness and that means solving a lot of issues that has nothing to do with art: technical, financial, etc. So I plan to dedicate more time to my art, my photos and maybe someday drop the film bussines apart just to dedicate full time to creativity, love and peace.


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Where do you live?

Right now i'm living in Bogota, Colombia. I share an apartment with my partners from Palo Alto Films. And it’s actually like living in a film company. All the time we are writing screenplays, sending them to our N.Y. and Hollywood contacts, planing pitching travels, etc. I love this apartment. Last year we moved so much because of the job (I never spent more than six months in a single place) that it would be a shame to leave this one. I miss having my own space to take photographs, like an studio or something.

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What do you use myspace for?

That's the big question!!! I’ve spent my last 3 years posting pictures and shortfilms in myspace as somekind of virtual exposition because I’ve never been part of a real one in the real life. I have to admit thou I don't like myspace at all. In fact is boring. This interview is the most and only estimulating thing that has happened to me in years [thank you ;-)]. I’m sick and tired of the hey sexy thing and all the teenage crap.

On the other hand, and to be honest, I hope that myspace will help me to capture the attention of people in other countries that might feel appealed to my work. For instance, I love publishing houses (I studied journalism before I made films) and I’ve always loved magazines. I hope that some of this people will get hooked up with my work. My photography doesn’t match with the Colombian criteria in this area, we only have a very few magazines in here and most of them are only dedicated to models and jet-set, that's not my interest, I’m more into in music bands, great influencial and intelectual personalities, actors, writers, directors, musicians, one of my greatest dreams is to make photos for the album cover of a band. The closest I came was to make some pictures for the Rolling Stone Magazine Colombia.

Thanks to myspace I received an invitation to Tokio to take photographs. For a Colombian man who isn’t rich that’s a dream!!! But I have to wait and finish some film issues before I go. I'm working with the team of Palo Alto to reach the budget for my first feature film as a director: Rage!!!

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Where do all the pictures/videos on your site come from?

All images in my myspace come from for me. The pictures were taken by me: personal friends and people I know. There’s no professional model in the photos. They all are musicians, sociologist, designers, students. Some of them doesn’t even have a job. That’s the ilusion on the pictures. As Ansel Adams said: “All fashion photos are the same, all are a liar”.
The trailer of the film Al Final del Espectro is propierty of Palo Alto Films, y do the direction of photography for the film, in a begining as a parther of the movie i was interested to hire some director of photography from E.U. or mexico with more expreience in films, but we don't have budget, so, at last, i do the cinematography, that was my first time with a profesional team and cameras (before that i just made 16mm shortfilms and mini dv experimental videos "home made" some of them are in the myspace page).

Is this you in your icon?

Yeip!

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Related links:
Luis' flickr account
the passengers book
imdb profile