SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Feel & Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion

Fashion Film Screenings

A showreel of experimental fashion films

Curated by Armando Chant, Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney

Friday 26 July – Saturday 10 August 2013
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday  11 am – 5 pm

Free event, no bookings necessary

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington

Plus special one-off screenings:

Saturday 27 July – 1 – 2.30 pm
The September Issue  2009 (90 mins / Rated M)

Saturday 3 August – 12 – 1.40 pm
Valentino: The Last Emperor 2008 (96 mins / Rated M)

Saturday 10 August – 1 – 2.30 pm
Bill Cunningham New York 2010 (84mins / Rated PG) 

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The fashion film series, presented as part of the Feel & Think program, aims to reflect the rich and inspiring relationship between art and fashion, especially within an Australian context. Fashion film’s potential to translate, convey and communicate a designer’s vision has seen its presence grow. Like new-media and video arts, its importance is now being recognised globally – both within fashion and the visual arts – as key to the canon of communication and representation of fashion within contemporary culture.

The following films showcase Australian designer/practitioners who operate at various level of the industry: emerging, experimental and established. The film series showcases Australian designers whose practice explores traditional techniques in combination with cutting edge technologies. Fashion film’s ability to immerse the viewer in an emotive experiential world perfectly complements the fashion designer’s role as narrator, leading us on a personal creative voyage.

CARL KAPP

Carl Kapp’s film depicts the process he undertook to create his signature International Woolmark Prize capsule collection. It is a stylised story of this creative journey that takes the viewer from fabric selection to garment completion.

SONG FOR THE MUTE

Conceptual space meets the real world within the construct of a virtual place, which is not based upon architectural forms or landscapes, but is more connected to the notion of information or cognitive space. This is the white space. The space between neurons, the volume of a bit. In actuality, conceptual space is the virtual space we are most familiar with.

MAGDALENA VALEVSKA

A portrayal of the personal journey of a strong, independent yet vulnerable woman. The film follows the story of the protagonist as she relives her intimate relationship with her sophisticated mechanical environment.

ELLERY

An abstracted narrative based around the correlation between dreaming and psychosis. It is an interpretation of the thesis paper by the philosopher, Charles McCreery, which explores the duality between the waking and dreaming states of consciousness.  This concept presents a quickly moving montage of descent from a passive state of dreaming into a visceral ‘nightmare’.

CHRISTOPHER ESBER

This film explores the reflection of one’s self, revealing the individual reflections of one person in a state of inner turmoil within an environment of chaos.

DION LEE

FELT is a striking visual portrayal of Dion Lee’s incredible International Woolmark Prize capsule collection submission. The film showcases the fit and shape of his wonderful wool creation through imagery and movement.

MAKE.SHIFT CONCEPTS

MAKE.SHIFT CONCEPTS is an trans-disciplinary collaborative practice where the designers explore crossings between fashion, textile and architecture. Fashion Film Transitions II explores the notion of the garment conceived as a perpetually shifting object in motion and space, emerging, transforming and evolving.

KATHERINE MAVRIDIS

Metempsychosis investigates an abstract exploration into the embodiment of the soul. Knitted and sculpted leather forms engulf and protrude from a dark, mysterious, unknown figure –reborn after death into a new external form. She wallows in the shallows of the water, trying to reconnect to her new skin, she is reborn.

KACEY DEVLIN

Inception questions the fallacies and fictions that both clothing and the act of dressing have adapted over time. Inception takes the body back to basics, no fastening, no artifice, the garment as a second skin: a refugee. Inception opens a new space where bodies can traverse freely: a space where we are no longer passive consumers, but rather active co-creators of meaning.

MINETTE SHUEN

Dis/sect reveals the inner beauty and complexity of the human anatomy – peeling back layers of the skin and examining the structures that lie beneath. By exploring slitting, moulding and flaying techniques, Dis/sect presents the female form in various modes of anatomical undress.

MATTHEW DOLAN

Rumspringa investigates the hysteric turbulence between the contrasting notions of violence and tenderness, purity and eroticism – a subversive, awkward aesthetic reflective of the undoing of controlled societies and their respective adoption of a plain uniform code of dress.

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SCAF would like to thank the UTS fashion department and Mr Armando Chant for curating the selection of films. SCAF also thanks AWI for permission to use videos featured within the 2012 Woolmark prize, produced by Alastair McCann, Director of The New Pop.