Film

Screen stars: Beka & Lemoine’s complete work acquired by MoMA

So often we are intimidated by the scope and scale of contemporary architecture, the expansive vaults, the soaring atria, the undulating walls. We might be unsure of our place in it; passive viewer or active participant? For a decade, Italian...

Under one roof: Metrograph is a cinema, bookshop, bar and restaurant all in one

After studying film at Harvard, Alexander Olch made a short drama called No Vladimir, which he sold to the American movie channels IFC and Bravo in 2000. ‘Traditionally, a director gives a present to the crew so instead of a...

Isaac Julien's video installation 'Stones Against Diamonds' comes to Art Basel Miami

Isaac Julien’s latest video installation, Stones Against Diamonds, has been on quite a tour this year. A five-screen preview popped up at the Venice Biennale, a 10-screen presentation at Art Basel and a 15-screen walk-through version arrived at Art Basel...

Travel friendly: Cottage Eight Films captures the spirit of travel in moving image form

Because two heads are definitely better than one, we are commending the new joint effort from creative director/curator Cory Jacobs and photographer Jason Schmidt. Going by the name Cottage Eight Films, Jacobs and Schmidt have come together to produce a...

Nick Knight releases a short film for Comme des Garçons

Iconic fashion photographer Nick Knight has created a conceptual film for the Comme des Garçons’ 2015 fragrance Floriental, released to SHOWstudio, his video website, this week. Based on the concept of a flower that has no scent, the film and perfume both...

Microfilms: the genre set to challenge the movie industry gets its own UK festival

’In 2010 there was a 40 minute film made by young men based on their dissatisfaction for China in the 1980s called Old Boys. It got 80 million views,’ says Philip Dodd, chairman of Made in China, a cultural...

Watch our highlights from Milan’s second annual Fashion Film Festival

The four days before Milan Fashion Week saw Italy’s most stylish city play host to the second annual edition of the Fashion Film Festival Milano. Organised by Constanza Cavalli Etro, the feisty and fearless Argentine-born wife of designer Kean Etro...

Fifty years of filth: the complete films of John Waters (every goddamn one of them)

Milan welcomes its inaugural fashion film festival aimed at established designers and emerging graduates

On Sunday, Milan inaugurated its very first fashion film festival inside the 15th-century Piccolo Teatro Grassi, an esteemed theatre that has staged productions since 1947. Entitled Fashion Film Festival Milano, the two-day event was sponsored by the Camera Nazionale della...

ASVOFF 5 - A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival, Paris

The world’s first annual film festival dedicated to fashion, style and beauty continues to shake up the old rules of fashion by shifting the focus from still photography to moving image. The fifth edition of A Shaded View on Fashion...

Miu Miu Womens’ Tales: It’s Getting Late by Massy Tadjedin

Iranian-American filmmaker Massy Tadjedin’s reflective short film for Miu Miu follows four women as dusk settles on an atmospheric urban LA landscape. ’It’s Getting Late’, the fourth installment of the Miu Miu Womens’ Tales series, was unveiled last night as...

Semi-Permanent creative conference

It may be called Semi-Permanent, but the annual design festival down under is making quite a mark on the creative calendar. Concieved in Australia and popping up in all major cities across the country, it now has an international reach...