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Co-Conspirators (New Artists Commissions) + intro
If Looks Could Kill: The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival
From stolen pearls to a glove left at the scene of the crime, from an excess of red lipstick to the postmodern gangster silhouette, If Looks Could Kill explores the compelling links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence.
www.fashioninfilm.com
Festival Pass: £20 (Please contact Arnolfini Box Office to purchase the festival pass.)
Programme Curator: Marketa Uhlirova; Associate Curator: Christel Tsilibaris
Fashion in Film Festival is based at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Supported by Oasis, Arts Council England, Arts & Business and Kirin
Film
Sat 29 Nov, 6.30pm
£5.50 / £4.00 concs
Exploring a range of subjects such as cursed clothing, obsessive gestures and desires, and the history of the cinematic slap, seven artists have created new films that explore the festival themes. Weaving together the work of photographers, performers, designers, artists and film-makers, the programme takes a look at the fixations, joys and fears that can become attached to garments and styles of dress. The artists are: Paulette Philips, Eloise Fornieles, Elizabeth McAlpine, Dino Dinco, Shannon Plumb, Derrick Santini and Boudicca.
The diverse approaches include artist Paulette Phillips’ re-sequencing of Hollywood film clips, emphasising the viewer’s pleasure in watching female criminals and the visual codes that mark them as seductive deviants; photographer Derrick Santini’s tracing of a pair of gloves that encourage their wearers to commit the criminal act of frottage; and artist Shannon Plumb’s focusing on New York street corners and the identification of criminals through their appearance. Performance artist Eloise Fornieles has collaborated with cameramen in an interactive gallery performance, which examines the relationship between wasteful consumption and violence, and artist Elizabeth McAlpine has choreographed sequences of slaps from the history of cinema, identifying them as a particularly female form of violence.
Co-conspirators generates a dialogue between several different art forms and creative industries, including film, art, photography, performance and design, and encourages experimentation by artists for whom the moving image is not a primary medium.
The programme is guest-curated by editor/curator Louise Clarke and writer/curator Laura McLean-Ferris.
Introduced by Co-curator Laura McLean-Ferris.
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