“Rêve” by Barnaby Roper
Director Barnaby Roper
Model Abbey Lee Kershaw
Makeup Eric Polito
Hair Luke Baker
Editor Nathan Brown @ Industrial Color
Motion Santiago Gonzalez @ Industrial Color
Music Owen Penglis/Straight Arrows.
Styled and art directed by Tamila Purvis and Melanie Kamsler of Maniamania
Eventhough Barnaby Roper‘s piece for the Australian accesoires brand Maniamania was launched quite a while ago (in February 2011), we just had to feature it…Why? Well, because, first of all, our collection of Barnaby’s body of work on Ravished wouldn‘t be complete without it (see also Vanitas, Pauline and Iris); secondly because of Abbey Lee (duh) and finally because, even if we normally aren’t very keen on the overly-excessive use of effects, this film continues what Barnaby (resp. his cutter and post-guys @ Industrial Color) started with Iris: the exploration of the slice-effect. However, the result is a very fast paced and quite entertaining film inspired by „Vali Myers, an Australian artist and vagabond gypsy who roamed around the world as a free spirited dancer in the underworld of a post war Paris, then later becoming an artist and muse to many icons of our time, such as a young Patti Smith and Mariane Faithfull.“
