Fashion in Film, based at London’s internationally acclaimed Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, has been commissioned to curate a special four-day film festival by Fashion Project, Bal Harbour Shops’ cultural space. The festival, Wearing Time: Returns, Recalls, Renewals, hosted by Fashion Project on the third level of Bal Harbour Shops, is scheduled January 28–31.
Founded in 2005, Fashion in Film encourages critical response to the use of fashion, clothing, jewelry, make-up, and accessories in film. It brings together a mix of popular culture, art, rare footage, and the underground to show how the moving image has represented and interpreted fashion as a concept, an industry, and a cultural form.
Wearing Time: Returns, Recalls, Renewals is co-curated by Marketa Uhlirova of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, who is co-founder of Fashion in Film, and Tim Gunning of the University of Chicago’s Department of Film and Media Studies. The festival explores the intersection of film and fashion and how they relate to time. All festival programs are complimentary, with multiple films and talks offered throughout the four days in Fashion Project’s third level space, converted to a screening room by Tui Pranich and Tui Lifestyle. The film festival marks the conclusion of Fashion Project’s fall/winter series of exhibition and programs, 50 + 50: A Century of Fashion, celebrating the past 100 years in fashion and the 50th anniversary of Bal Harbour Shops.
“Fashion in film has always been an important sign-posting device, deployed in multiple ways to guide the viewer through time. Dress is one of the most potent indicators of the past, both in film and in life. We may literally feel haunted when we open a closet and rediscover once-familiar clothing,” note festival co-curators Marketa Uhlirova and Tom Gunning. “In film, not only can dress become a vehicle with which to travel through time, is can also measure time, set its rhythm. It allows us to wear time, even as time wears us out.”
Cathy Leff, founder of Bal Harbour Shops’ Fashion Project, views the festival as a way to continue to build a broad-based community around fashion culture. “I was delighted when Marketa and Tom agreed to curate a special edition of Fashion in Film for us,” she says. “It is not only a wonderful opportunity to bring this international festival to Bal Harbour Shops but also to position the shopping center as more than a site for the consumption of fashion rather as a hub for the consumption of culture.”
The four-day film festival hosted by Fashion Project on the third level of Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave, Bal Harbour, FL, is complimentary. As seating is limited, RSVPs are required. For more information contact: info@fashionprojectbhs.com or 786.245.2200.
WEARING TIME: SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE
Thursday, January 28
7:00 pm/ Talk and Films: Fashion is History, festival introduction and nine shorts
8:45 pm/ Vertigo
Friday, January 29
7:30 pm/ Om Shanti Om, with an introduction by Anupama Kapse
Saturday, January 30
1:30 pm/ Tony Takitani, with an introduction by Kate Sinclair
4:30 pm/ Don’t Look Now
6:45 pm/ FP Talks/Fashion Time – Film Time: Festival co-curators Tom Gunning and Marketa Uhlirova in Conversation
8:15 pm/ Lola Montes
Sunday, January 31
2:30 pm/ My Fancy High Heels
4:00 pm/ Resurrecting and Re-editing the Cinema Diva: Wearing Time co-curator Tom Gunning introduces the artist films Rose Hobart and Irma Vep, the Last Breath
6:00 pm/ Costume Changes: Doll Clothes and Grey Gardens
COLLABORATORS
Fashion Project is an experimental cultural space devoted to curatorial projects and programs that explore and celebrate fashion and the culture surrounding its design, innovation, production, and consumption. An initiative of Bal Harbour Shops, it was conceptualized and developed by Cathy Leff. Fashion Project is collaborating with groundbreaking London-based curator and exhibition-maker Judith Clark for thought-provoking exhibitions, programs, and activities. www.fashionprojectbhs.com
Fashion In Film is an exhibition, research and education project based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. It is a leading international project exploring the common ground shared by fashion and film. In its programming it draws on a rich history of the moving image and brings together documentary and fashion films, commercials, newsreels, early cinema, and experimental film as well as classic and forgotten gems in European, American, and world cinemas. Through a focus on fashion and film costume, it brings together the fashion industry, cinephilia, popular culture, art and the underground.
CONTRIBUTORS
Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College Classics at University of Chicago.
Marketa Uhlirova is co-founder, director, and curator of the Fashion in Film Festival and a senior research fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Anupama Kapse is assistant professor of film studies at Queens College, CUNY.
Kate Sinclair is research and production assistant for Fashion in Film as well as a freelance stylist.
Tui Pranich is the creative director of Tui Lifestyle, with showrooms in Miami, New York City, Las Vegas, and Panama.
PARTNERS
The mission of Miami Dade College’s Miami International Film Festival is to connect art with audiences and foster a value for cinema for future generations. Running annually since 1984, the 33rd edition will take place March 4–13, 2016.
Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives collects, preserves, catalogs, and makes accessible film and video materials that document Florida’s history and culture. The Archives is an essential resource for the community, state, and nation, and provides unique materials to researchers, film and video producers, and the general public. A year-round screening program features materials from the Archives’ collections and those of other archives throughout the nation and abroad.
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami is Miami’s oldest art institution, with a collection of more than 18,000 objects spanning 5,000 years of art and culture.