Fashion in Film Festival CPHIf Looks Could Kill

February 1st to 21st 2014

Fashion in Film Festival CPH focus on some of the close relationships between fashion and film.

This year we zoom in on the criminal underworld in cinema and the troublingly seductive fashion imagery that emerges from it. The ‘If Looks Could Kill’ programme offers an ex-citing variety of film genres, directors and style icons - from the Amazonian diva Ursula Andress to the seminal artist Cindy Sherman, and from a silent love story capturing Berlin’s underworld of the interwar period to a revenge thriller set against the background of the flamboyant New York City of the 1980s.

It’s all here: humor and horror, mainstream and art house, the guys from back when they wore tight black leather and the femmes fatales with modern office jobs and bloodstains on their clothes.

Please note that we will be presenting a special Danish angle on fashion in film on 6 Febru-ary with a themed evening of contemporary fashion films. Meet prominent Danish fashion figures, designers and film producers including Mads Nørgaard, Soulland, Else Skjold, Han Kjøbenhavn, Ane Lynge-Jorlén and Nadja Meyer - all giving their take on the best films from the Danish fashion houses throughout the years.

The programme was curated by Marketa Uhlirova with Christel Tsilibaris and Ditte Marie LundFounded in 2005 in London and based at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, the Fashion in Film Festival has been dubbed ‘one of the smartest festivals around’, and ‘a must-see for any style-conscious film buff ’.

www.fashioninfilmcph.dkDitte Marie Lund, externcurator/projectmanager, dittemarie@fashioninfilmcph.dk, 28711408

Ditte Bringø Bachmann, projectmanager, ditte@fashioninfilmcph.dk, 61308832

Tickets: www.cinemateket.dk Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 København K

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OFFICE KILLERSAT 01/02 17:00 + SAT 15/02 14:00am Cinemateket, dkk. 65,-, members dkk. 40,-Cindy Sherman, 1997 / 82 min. (97 min incl. introduction )

In her first feature film direction to date, American artist Cindy Sherman concocts a peculiarly funny caricature of psycho-thriller and horror genres. The film follows the transformation of the “pathetic” office mouse Dorine into an unruly predator, a femme-fatale-gone-wrong. Having stirred up criminal chaos, Dorine finds much pleasure in fashioning a grisly tableau of her bitchy

colleagues in a dark basement, upping the stakes in Sherman’s trademark portrayal of perversity.On February 1st the opening night the film is presented in collaboration with Cover and will be introduced by fashion researcher Ane Lynge-Jorlén. There will be refreshments after the film!

IF LOOKS COULD KILLFashion in Film Festival CPH, programme February 1st to 21st 2014

THE TENTH VICTIMSAT 01/02 21:30 + SAT 08/02 17:00Cinemateket, dkk. 65,-, members dkk. 40,-La decima vittima / Elio Petri, 1965 / 92 min.In a distant 21st century where the world lusts for violence, an international organisation called “The Big Hunt” has legalised murder. Things get heated when the game’s top players become Victim and Hunter. Marcello Mastroianni stars as a blond-haired, sun-glassed impassive Victim and Ursula Andress as his beautiful Amazonian Hunter in what can only be described as an über-cool Italian ‘60s pop art sci-fi comedy extravaganza, complete with an ex-citing electronic musical score and comic book architecture. In the midst of the action, the film is also a fashion show of ultra-modern geomet-ric garments à la André Courrèges. February 8th there is drinks and cocktails after the film at res-taurant Sult. See more on webpage.

ASPHALT (SILENT FILM CONCERT – with live improvesed concert by artist Jomi Massage)Tue 04/02 19:15Cinemateket, dkk. 65,-, members dkk. 40,-Der Polizeiwachtmeister und die DiamantenElse / Joe May, 1929 / 94 min.A pre-talkie release, Asphalt is a stunning gem of expression-ist cinema, and a prime example of German “Strassenfilm”. It’s shadowy scenes, the overt eroticism of the fatal woman and dia-mond thief Else, and the plot itself, in which an orderly traffic cop is caught in the web of crime and uncontrollable passion, all prefigure film noir. Yet it is in the way the story unfolds where director May shines, able to shift effortlessly from social realism to romantic melodrama and comedy. The film’s opening featur-ing the witty and dextrous thievery of “Diamantenelse,” as she was called in the German original.The versatile composer and musician Jomi Massage play live im-provised for ‘Asphalt’. The concert is produced in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut dänemark and Wundergrund..

BLOOD AND BLACK LACETue 04/02 + wed 12/02 21:30Cinemateket, dkk. 65,-, members dkk. 40,Mario Bava, 1964 / 84 min.Camp as its title may sound, this creation from the Italian horror maverick Mario Bava is considered a quintessential giallo thriller and a masterpiece, and has a cult following among the likes of Quentin Taran-tino. Filmed under the working title “The Fashion House of Death”, it revolves around dubious secrets involving a group of nerve-wracked fashion models, and a certain red diary. Like the sumptuously baroque fashion salon, the murder scenes are meticulously staged, with bodies often re-arranged for yet more breathtakingly spectacular effect. Son of Eugenio Bava, an accom-plished cinematographer in Italian silent cinema, Mario himself was a brilliant and innovative technician, highly regarded for his use of colour and lighting.All fans of “cinematic” fashion photography, watch this space!

MS.45 SAT 08/02 + FRI 21/02 21:45Cinemateket, dkk. 65,-, members dkk. 40,-Abel Ferrara, 1981 / 80 min. Ms. 45 , (1981) directed by Abel Ferrara is a violent retribution drama in which a shy seamstress is brutally raped twice in the same day and transformed into a killer, shooting men with her .45 pistol. The trans-

formation of the heroine is marked by the change of her style and dress, from dowdy to a sleek, cat-like vamp who wears bright red lipstick and killer boots. The film climaxes in a scene at a fancy dress party in which the character dresses as a nun in suspenders, drawing together her transformation from virgin to a mur-derous femme fatale.

FASHION FILM – A DEBATE ON FASHION FILMTHUR 06/02 19:15Cinemateket, specialprice dkk. 40,-Film collages with panel debate. Total du-ration 105 min.Fashion brands worldwide, including sev-eral Danish, have realized that, the more established media forms (especially still photos and catwalks) are challenged by the medium of film in positioning a fash-ion brand in consumers awareness. Such fashion film can be PR, art or pure entertainment- campaign products, but also aesthetic tools in their own right. Prominent Danish fashion profiles as Mads Nørgaard and Ane Lynge-Jorlén represent their view on the best film productions from Danish fashion houses over the years. Afterwards Fashion Researcher Else Skjold opens a panel discussion with Danish Fashion Designers and Producers, including Casper Balslev (Director on the award winning films from Han Kjøbenhavn), Silas Adler (Designer, Soulland), Nadja Meyer (Fashion Consultant) and curator at Designmuseum Denmark Marie Riegels Melchior, who all have worked with the two media all together. The panel will amongst other subjects discuss how fashion in film has changed over the years and which new opportunities/challenges the media offers the fashion industry. The evening is pre-sented together with Copenhagen Fashion Festival. There will be served refreshments at the event.