B.A. 19038558 - BA Design for Art Direction The project proposed as self-initiated project serves in the big picture as a continuation, improvement and further understanding of my practice. I have been working in the past on film projects in distinct roles such as videographer, producer, on set coordinator, stylist. This year the opportunity to lead a self-initiated project made me understand the importance of being active and self-driven. Being able to lead a project as director, producer and filmmaker out of the projects that are normally pushed and initiated by teachers and tutors during the academical year has been definitely a leap forward in understanding the direction of my practice. The current SIP I’ve been working on is a short fashion film I'm directing. I collaborated with designer brand Philipp Dorner, alumni of London College of Fashion (2021 Graduate) to utilize his upcoming collection for the fashion side of the film. I worked with Philipp in the past as videographer for his previous collection campaign, so when I heard his new collection was coming out, I worked on a pitch for a small film to go along the promotion for the collection and then presented to him the project. The designer was happy with the direction and trusted me on the process and took care of the styling. Philipp’s brand is based in London, however most of his influences for the brand come from Germany, more specifically Berlin and its youth and club culture. I decided, together with Philipp, to base and film the project in Berlin, the city which is dear to him, and his new collection draws inspiration from. This has been a great opportunity for me to research more about the city where I am currently spending my DPS year in. The 3 minutes long fashion film is a story of separation and struggle in a queer relationship during a time of oppression and uncertainty, the story wants to be time-flexible / timeless, it wants to represent recurring situations of oppression, struggle, love, queerness. The plot revolves around two queer boys which love develops in a burdensome environment and they are unable to live through their relationship because of the pressure operated by where they are in. Feelings of unsatisfaction and anger make them escape from each other. Once separated they look for each other in different spaces and grief their loss in unusual and different ways. They find each other again in a space where the outside environment is not pressuring them, a remote place serving metaphorically as the only place they are able to love and understand each other. The short film has a simple storyline in terms of the dynamics between the two characters, however it draws inspiration from the very city which has a heavy, divided and politically oppressed past. The film is going to be shot in distinct and significant parts of the city, Mitte (once the oppressed and communist east occupied by the DDR), ICC Messe (a station at the feet of the West Tv Tower, symbol back then of the western and more european part of the city) and finally Tiergarten, a significant park at the doors of the city which has always been very significant for queer culture and history (The Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted during Nazism is located there, currently it is a famous cruising spot). The of this film was mainly to bring together the elements collected in my stay here in Berlin about its past, queer culture and struggles with Philipp’s way of making clothes and his passion for late 90’s club culture. This project, differently from the previous, has really pushed me more into the medium of film and film production, making me understand how this can fit in my current and future practice. The pre-production side of things that does not only involve me but also a series of professionals that need to be briefed and make the vision come to fruition has also been something new to me and that inspires me and gives me more confidence to continue to work on more future film projects.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
March 2022
Categories |