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Losing the Thread (2015)
Directed by Vivian Ostrovsky
· 8m
"Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze’s definition of style: 'creating a foreign language in one’s own language,' encouraged me to loosen the threads of this pursuit. To ponder how fashion and style are interwoven but also influenced by individual flare and whimsy, I stitched together Coco Chanel, Courrèges, Cole Porter and Kaiser Karl with vintage film moments. Then, as now, to grasp the whole cloth of this interface involves finding, but also Losing the Thread…"
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Vivian Ostrovsky
- Editor
- Ruti Gadish
Details
- Release date
- 2015-05-01
- Runtime
- 8m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- French, English, Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- On the Fly Productions