Director: Sandra Birkner
DOP: Leif Thomas
Hair & Make Up: Lisa Binz
Music: Mount Kimbie / Taps
Models: Caroline Bruchmann @Most Wanted and Marcus Scheumann @Mega
Sandra Birkner has a knack for combining modern architecture with fashion. Clean lines, bright places and two protagonists playing a game of cat-and-mouse. Although the scenery is minimalistic, Birkner understands to tell a strong and expressive story. You can divine curiosity, excitement and a little bit of flutter. Lean back and enjoy!
This Monday, prior to the screening of his new feature film “Tess” in Cannes, Roman Polanski suprised his audience by showing his first fashion film, namely “A Therapy”, sponsored by luxury brand Prada. The film, as one can expect from a world-famous director and a luxury top brand like Prada, brings together a number of upper crust Hollywood veterans (a list of the crew’s former work would turn out too long, but do check the IMDB entries).
The film itself impresses with a funny (if maybe not super-inventive) script, a marvelous set design and, of course, Helena Bonham Carter’s and Ben Kingsley’s nonchalant performances. And it’s also noteworthy, that film plot and the adveritising message match perfectly: Prada suits everyone.
La Bella Estate - Dolce & Gabbana S/S 2012 by William Zanardi
Director: William Zanardi
Film and sound editor: Leandro Manuel Emede
Starring: Francesco Scianna, Primo Reggiani, Chiara Francini, Beppe Fiorello, Filippo Nigro and Thomas Trabacchi
Get a glimpse of Italian lifestyle by this wonderful little short for Dolce&Gabbana’s latest S/S 2012 collection. A sunny lazy day, relaxed atmosphere and some family celebration… In the meantime you discover a love triangle. The secretive beautiful women played by Chiara Francini does some occasional flirting with different men. The question is: Who is the father of the cute baby in her arm? Even if this relationships implicate some complex questions, you are totally easy-going and feeling La Dolce Vita! Enjoy…
Fashion Films are at home all over the world. Today, for example, we found a great Canadian piece by Sarah Elisabeth Blais for the Toronto based label Chloe Comme Parris. It is a nice fashion film, which, similar to the label, focusses on the patterns of fabric. The set design is arranged beautifully and the general calm, laid-back mood make for a comforting work of art. So, relax and enjoy.
“The Homogenized Human” by Ryan Fielding for Hermione Flynn
Directed by Ryan Fielding
Produced by Hermione Flynn
Models: Liv MacPhedran and Emma Coppersmith
Hair&Make-Up: Dominique Whitticker
Music: Frakkur
Something’s really off here. Shouldn’t films released in spring, almost summer, feel more light, positive… colorful? Looking back at the few past weeks on Ravished, it seems like weird and generally dark and disturbing films are the cool thing to do right now. And we won’t complain about it, as long as they’re as skillful and intense as this one by director Ryan Fielding. “The Homogenized Human” feels like an excursion into a dystopian, Orwellian future where man has lost it’s humanity, it’s voice, almost any form of self-expression. Humans are nothing more than “… human sculptures. The camera scans and examines their bodies without apology, referencing them as mere specimens, both voiceless and nonreactive. Placed within urban and industrial wastelands, their figures occupy the spaces between buildings and underneath motorways. The relationship with one another is sometimes distinguished through mirroring and repetition. Yet at other times, their limbs are so entangled, one cannot define where the first body begins, and the second ends.” Sounds pretentious? It would, if the film would’t deliver. And it does very much so. It’s hard to highlight something in particular, since everything is of a piece here, but if we’d had to, it’d probably be the extremely good color grading. And the music by Sigur Ros member Frakkur. And, of course, the fantastic locations. Not to forget the mise-en-scene…
Great one.
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