Diane Pernet: A shaded view on fashion film festival
A Shaded View on Fashion Film is a very interesting fashion film festival founded, curated and organised by international fashion icon and celebrated blogger Diane Pernet in cooperation with her co-producers David Herman and Antoine Asseraf. The festival was born in 2008 and back then launched at the Jeu de Paume during the last three days of the Avedon exhibition.
In this travelling festival she combines two of her big passions: film and fashion.
Diane Pernet on the subject:
“I would love fashion films to replace fashion shows but in reality I think a major change like that will take quite some time. Certain designers create spectacular fashion shows like Galliano or McQueen, but for the most part watching male and female models walk up and down the catwalk feels a bit last century to me. I think a fashion film is a new way to express a collection. What interests me is the intersection between fashion and film. For the near future fashion film is an additional way of experiencing fashion.”
A shaded view on fashion film festival 2009 trailer
ASVOFF is a festival including a film selection & competition, documentaries, features and installations. The common thread that binds this diverse program is the use of fashion, beauty and/or style as the principal subject, theme or cinematic aesthetic. The festival is a study in the drama, power and personification that fashion evokes and commands on screen. It tries to shake up the old rules of fashion by putting the focus on the moving image, in an industry long dominated by the “still” photographic medium.
Upcoming Festival tour dates and locations:
New York March 5th 2010 as part of F Scope art fair
Moscow, April 3rd 2010 as part of Russia Fashion Week
Hyères fashion festival, April 30th to May 30th 2010 Villa Noailles, Hyères
A shaded view on fashion film festival award
Photos and video Diane Pernet | A shaded view on fashion film festival | A shaded view on fashion blog| Nunzia Garoffolo interview
Nosaj Thing Visual Show live impression
On the 13th of December 2009 Nosaj Thing, a gifted noise conductor from Los Angeles, premiered his visual performance during the Brainfeeder session at the downtown independent (L.A.). Please read also the earlier posted article about Nosaj Thing and his Visual Show on the W&V Blog for more information.
The video and photos in this article give a small impression of this stunning live session by Nosaj Thing.
Photos, music and video : Nosaj Thing | Theo Jemison | Vhinla channel Youtube
Nosaj Thing Visual Show
Nosaj Thing started out with making music on various archaic computers and programs. Nowadays he is among los Angeles finest musical modulators. Nosaj Thing creates electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics. His latest experiment is a projection show synced with his stylish broken beats which turns his performance into a strong visual show.
On the 13th of December 2009 the visual performance will premiering for the first time in Los Angeles during the Brainfeeder session at the downtown independent (L.A.)
Below you find a test shoot preview video from the visual show by this gifted noise constructor.
Listen below to the Aol radio/ Spinner.com podcast of the track: “Coat of Arms” taken from the album Drift by Nosaj Thing.
Photo, music and video : Nosaj Thing | Julia Tsao & Adam Guzman | Aol radio | Spinner.com
Tonematrix: Visual music and minimal design
Andre Michelle has created a simple sinewave synthesizer. You can compose your own tunes and melodies by interacting with the minimal designed visual grid. The result is a nice little flash tool which is very addictive. He calls this : Tonematrix and added it to his Laboratory Andre Michelle. The laboratory is a collection of his studies, extracted while developing his commercial projects or just by researching new technologies.
Follow the below link to Laboratory Andre Michelle and create your own music with Tonematrix:
In the below video you can see an example of Tonematrix.
Video by Psd | Flickr | Screenshot by Fontanel
Flower by Nick Knight
Nick Knight is among the worlds most influential and visionary photographers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with leading designers as well as editorial for W, British Vogue, Paris Vogue, Dazed & Confused, Another, Another Man and i-D magazines have consistently kept Knight at the vanguard of progressive image-making for the past three decades. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a twelve year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel. Knight’s work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery. He has also produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London and was the first of Channel 4’s ‘Big 4′ 50-foot installations outside its London HQ in 2007.
The below Flower video by Nick Knight is featuring a remix of Special Cases by Massive Attack.
Photo and video: Nick Knight featuring Massive Attack | Youtube
