still from Shame (عيب) by Hadi Moussally |
Ever since the beginning FASHIONCLASH has approached fashion as a multimedia artistic expression acknowledging film and moving media as an important part of the art of fashion. FASHIONCLASH offers a platform for the fashion film genre with a recurring curated film program during FASHIONCLASH Festival, but also produces fashion films itself. Each edition, new fashion films are premiering during the festival, aiming to contribute to the development of the genre. This proves to be successfull, most fashion films produced by FASHIONCLASH had ended up with multilple screenings and selections through out the world at various fashion film festival.
The Leap, fashion film that premiered in 2023 is currently traveling across the globe, the film earned selections at ASVOFF, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam, New York City International Fashion Film Festival and many more. The Leap is a short film by Amber Rozema, Solar Vlaar, Yana Engelbrecht, Jelena Bondt and Damiano Bodei, created after joining the 1-day Fashion Film Bootcamp organized by FASHIONCLASH in May 2023 and powered by Meester Koetsier Foundation. The team was guided in filming and editing by filmmaker Daniel van Hauten. By organizing a trajectory around fashion film, young artists and aspring film makers are given the opportunity to experiment with the genre. The multidisciplinary collaboration that this film genre offers multiple ways to explore fashion related narratives.
Behind the scenes of The Leap
Fashion Film Program at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2024
The film program at Lumière Cinema offers a platform to designers and filmmakers who experiment with the (short) fashion film genre. The program consists of a selection of 31 films from different countries in the world, thus showing a very diverse range of perspectives, disciplines, cultures and stories.
On Saturday evening 16 November, the five finalists will be presented and the FASHIONCLASH Festival Fashion Film Award 2024 and the KALTBLUT. Magazine Award will be presented by the jury consisting of Esther Muñoz Grootveld, Sam Bassett, Pedro Oberto, Donald Gjoka and Marcel Schlutt.
On Saturday, there is a special screening and artist talk dedicated to the film maker Hadi Moussally, a Lebanese-French filmmaker. He acquires a first master’s degree in “Fiction Cinema” then a second one in “Documentary and Anthropological Cinema” in Paris universities. In 2015, he co-founded the production company “h7o7” whose main objective is to enable the making and promotion of films and photos with "hybrid" vocation where is privileged the mixture of genres between fashion, experimental, documentary and fiction. In 2020, he founded “Hybrid Wave” with more than 30 hybrid artists from all around the world.
FASHIONCLASH fashion film projects
During the festival, three fashion films will also premiere that were produced by FASHIONCLASH and resulted from the Fashion Film development process that was made possible by the Meester Koetsier Foundation and Fonds Cultuurparticipatie.
on set at m i k |
In 'A Breathe Moment' a film by Jodie Cranen, Leda Spiranec, Povilas Gegevicius & Hsin Min Chan, a group of workers, stuck in a vicious cycle of labour; try to take control of their own efforts within a system that’s unmoving.
'Purification' is a film by Tobias Van Nieuwenhove, Coco Simons and Tyna Le.
A determination for purification introduces two figures from parallel universes—one reviving from mud, the other forged in ash and flame. As both urge to cleanse themselves from the polluted environment surrounding them, a broader challenge against their primordial nature and elemental constraints emerges.
To achieve their purest form, they must disrupt the balance of nature, leading to confusion and irreversible havoc.
A dystopian portrayal of the journey happens simultaneously through a macro-dynamic world where the present and future merge. The journey of both characters signifies the contrast between destruction, exertion and burning desire for liberation.
The striking documentary Queendom will be shown on Thursday evening, November 14, with a Q&A with the director. The story of Gena, a 21-year-old Russian non-binary performance artist, is also the perfect introduction to the festival, which includes a queer activity program.
Fashion Film Program 2024 participants:
Anke De Veirman, Alijah Johnson, Esteban Avilaa, Ximan Tan & Haowei Li, Lisa Konno, Maya Marzuki Peters, Delia Simonetti, Sel Kofiga, Zoë Zita & Filip Kwakkel, Yisong Huang, Katharina Spitz, Nicholas John Murphy, Dean Alexander, Corentin Kopp & Aaron Arnoldt Alexander, Jhenyfy Muller, Luuk Sieben & Wertmann Peter, Hadi Moussally, Ronita Awoonor-Gordon, Kutsal Taylanci, Asiah Essam Alsalem, Yu Chen, EV Zhang, Sophie Fabre & Roel Vissers, Nicola Martini, Dylan Eno, Desiree Brands & Joris Weerts, Thalia de Jong, Yangyang Wu, Michal Zgierski.
Some impressions of the 2024 selection: