The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela | by YOOX Group

The exclusive documentary produced by YOOX Group and directed by New York filmmaker Alison Chernick. The film, selected for the 2015 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival reveals the true face of the enigmatic Belgian designer who appears here as never before. Featuring some of the most distinguished names in the fashion industry, such as fashion journalist Suzy Menkes, designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Raf Simons and fashion retail entrepreneur Geert Bruloot – who was the first to discover the enormous talent of Martin Margiela.

Alison Chernick is a director, producer and television writer from New York, who became famous for her shorts in which she portrayed some of the most important personalities of contemporary art including Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney.
Throughout her career, she has won numerous international prizes for her directing and screenwriting while her productions have been shown in the most prestigious museums in the world including the five Guggenheims, the Smithsonian, SFMOMA and The Walker. She also created the video that accompanied the Roy Lichtenstein exhibit at the Tate Modern in 2012.
In 2005, she founded her own production company called “Voyeur Films”, creating documentaries and films dedicated to fashion, art, food and music.

Sinnerman: Nick Knight / Daniel Proietto / Alan Lucien Øyen / Men In Motion

Inspired and moved after viewing Ivan Putrov's 'Men in Motion' at the London Coliseum, Nick Knight asked featured dancer Daniel Proietto to perform his 'Sinnerman' routine, choreographed by Alan Lucien Øyen, on film. The re-staging is a celebration of the majesty of the male dancer - a sublime example of the possibilities of the body and the impact of the moving image.

Mr. Div

"There's an aspiration there for a kind of very sharp,very PURE image quality, while people like me want to make things more soft and rough." - Matthew DIVito via Twitter aka Mr. Div

The Talks: Wes Anderson

Name: Wesley Wales Anderson
DOB: 1 May 1969
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Occupation: Director


Mr. Anderson, do you see your films as self-contained worlds where you are in control of everything?
That’s probably true. I think there is some psychological thing where some artists like to make order and organizing and shaping something gives them some kind of feeling of accomplishment. But I also think there are some artists who are more interested in expressing something chaotic.

Werner Herzog comes to mind…
Or when you think of Robert Altman, for instance. His whole approach, his whole method of filming was designed to capture spontaneous moments that he could then shape and organize later. What he was really interested in, from actors anyway, were the accidents and what he doesn’t shape, where he just steps back and lets something grow. But at the same time I think he was probably also very much a kind of conductor. So it’s not controlling, but nevertheless guiding and shaping to the same effect… So maybe that’s what all art does.

But your movies are more controlled and designed than most.
Definitely a lot more designed than an Altman movie. A lot of the time we have built something to play our scene, and we really haven’t built anything outside of the frame. This is the way we’re going to do it, because that’s all there is and that’s all there is going to be! And we’re probably not going to have another choice when the time comes. But over the years I may have gotten more planned with how these movies are going to be filmed. It works better for me. I hope that the actors don’t feel trapped.

Did you ever have an actor that couldn’t deal with your style of directing?
One of the most challenging and best actors I worked with, many years ago, was Gene Hackman. He was not a relaxed, comfortable person in my company, but he did like a complicated shot where you have to be here and here and where there is a challenge for him. He liked the idea of doing a scene where you do something here and then you have to run around the back of something and appear somewhere else, like theater. What I hope is to create situations where the actors will be able to be alive like real people even in the context of something that is quite manufactured.

Do you want your films to be recognizable because of your style?
I don’t want to have an invisible style, but I don’t care about having a trademark. My writing and my way of staging the scenes and shooting – people can tell it’s me, but that’s not by my choice. It naturally happens. It’s just my personality as a director.

Do you ever feel time pressure when you are on set realizing some of those more complex shots?
Well, I am not usually in a situation where we can fix it later. We are usually doing it one way and we won’t be able to change the whole thing. There are a lot of things that we can fix in the cutting room, but we’ll only be able to improve what we have shot. Over the years I feel more pressure, but I don’t think it’s because someone is putting that pressure on me. It’s really more that I feel more a sense of satisfaction when we keep it organized and we have a plan and do it right.

Do you feel economic pressure for your movies to perform well?
I like to save money, I like to keep the costs down, but that’s mainly because I want to be able to make sure all the money we are spending is in the movie, it’s the part that’s up there, and nothing is wasted. As far as the movie making money, I don’t know how to influence that. I feel like there would not be much of a point in me saying, “Let’s do the movie this way, because it will be more popular.” You can’t guess. But in terms of trying to make a movie on a certain budget, Life Aquatic was very expensive and too big. Even while we were doing it I felt, “This is not appropriate for this film. It’s not going to make enough money to do this.”

That sounds like a bad thing to realize in the middle of production.
After that I’ve tried to not put myself into a situation like that again. That movie was a hard movie to make. It was 100 days of shooting and we were at sea a lot of the time. It cost 60 million dollars about ten years ago, so today it would be probably 80 million. So that’s a big budget for a movie that is quite odd. It’s not a real genre movie of any kind. But I didn’t have a clear enough understanding of it back then.

Do you usually start out with an image or a story idea?
It’s different for different ones. I remember quite well that the first movie I made was very much visual ideas. And it was not really things that were related to the story, it was more of a setting. But Grand Budapest Hotel for instance I had a character that we were very interested in. We just had a little idea for this character and a bit of a story, and I also had later the idea that I would like to do something related to Stefan Zweig.

Do figures from your own biography ever find their way into your storytelling? For example, is the father in The Royal Tenenbaums based on your father?
In The Royal Tenenbaums I was trying to use some things that happened to me, but they are very changed when they become a movie. It’s some things from my memory where I thought, “This is something of my own that I can use here.” But the father-son thing may at least have much to do with people that I have met. For many years I have had a number of different friends who are in the same age range as my father and they have quite influenced me. Some of them are real characters. So that’s maybe as much where that comes from as anywhere else.

What kinds of films do you feel like you draw on the most?
The kind of movies that I want to make draw probably equally on European and American movies and maybe some Japanese or Indian, too. But the biggest are European, American, and British traditions. I am more interested in a classical kind of moviemaking. I like to be dazzled in the movies and I don’t feel I am very reserved in the way I direct. But they come from a tradition of cinema. My favorite filmmakers are people like John Huston, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Fellini, and Bergman – and that’s how I was formed as a filmmaker. Those are the biggest influences.

You also have stuck to the tradition of shooting on film and have yet to shoot a film digitally.
True, but I don’t know. In a year, in two years, I don’t know if it will be a reasonable option to shoot on film. Sometimes I see a movie now that is shot digitally and I don’t even know. I am interested in all different kinds of filmmaking. I don’t know if I see something slipping away. There are lots of very strong-minded, personal filmmakers and they will always do what they believe in.

The Talks is a weekly updated online interview magazine.
Every week The Talks publishes an interview and portrait with a leading creative voice of our times, a curated selection of interviews with personalities from the fields of art, film, fashion, music, and sports.
The Talks was founded in 2011 by Sven Schumann and Johannes Bonke.

The True Cost - Official Trailer

This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?
Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world’s leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.

Written and directed by Andrew Morgan with Vandana Shiva, Rick Ridgeway, Richard Wolff, Stella McCartney, Guido Brera.

Palace Skateboards London Flagship

Palace Skateboards
26 Brewer St.
Soho, London W1F 0SW
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Apple Watch

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TRUE WETSUITS BY QUIKSILVER

High spec waterproof, the True Wetsuits can be worn from home to the beach,
and from beach to the office with no need to change at all.
A mix of jersey neoprene and a stretchy "dryflight" fabric, TRUE WETSUITS comes in three styles; Office Smart, Casual Friday and Party Tuxedo to suit for every occasion.

SIR by Mario Testino

Peruvian-born Mario Testino has launched SIR, a book about his search to define the allure of men.

“The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man’s personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.” - Mario Testino

Sky Pods Show Rise of New York Skyline

The elevators to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center show an animated time lapse that recreates the development of New York City’s skyline, from the 1500s to today.



via The New York Times

The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela by YOOX Group

The exclusive documentary produced by YOOX Group and directed by New York filmmaker Alison Chernick. The film, selected for the 2015 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival reveals the true face of the enigmatic Belgian designer who appears here as never before. Featuring some of the most distinguished names in the fashion industry, such as fashion journalist Suzy Menkes, designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Raf Simons and fashion retail entrepreneur Geert Bruloot – who was the first to discover the enormous talent of Martin Margiela.

Alison Chernick is a director, producer and television writer from New York, who became famous for her shorts in which she portrayed some of the most important personalities of contemporary art including Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney.
Throughout her career, she has won numerous international prizes for her directing and screenwriting while her productions have been shown in the most prestigious museums in the world including the five Guggenheims, the Smithsonian, SFMOMA and The Walker. She also created the video that accompanied the Roy Lichtenstein exhibit at the Tate Modern in 2012.
In 2005, she founded her own production company called “Voyeur Films”, creating documentaries and films dedicated to fashion, art, food and music.

FUGU & TAKO

FUGU & TAKO is an amazing buddy film with stunning visual effects. The story follows two Japanese salary men's lives that literally transform when one of them eats a live puffer fish in a sushi bar.



Written and Directed by Ben West
Producer Wendy Green

Fogu - Kentaro Hara
Tako - Kuni Hashimoto
Sushi Chef - Shingo Usami

Sweatshop - Deadly Fashion

What happens when you send three young Norwegians abroad to meet the workers that sew our clothes?

THE JEANMAKER - Explicit Remake

Instant vintage kits, crunchy denim and a Peruvian vicuña all feature prominently in THE JEANMAKER, which follows a celebrated denim designer – the Howard Hughes of the denim industry – hell-bent on ‘out-Vintaging’ the competition. But as the collection launch nears, his unwillingness to compromise leads him to personal disaster.

THE JEANMAKER is the second film in Denham’s ‘Explicit Remake’ series in which the denim brand re-imagines cinematic classics transforming them into sharp contemporary parables.
“Working with Denham the last few years I’ve learned that jeanmaking is primarily about obsessing the details,” says director Hugo Keijzer, who conceived the Explicit Remake series and created THE JEANMAKER with production company Mike TeeVee and writer John Weich. “But just when you think you’ve got this perfect uncompromised product you get sidetracked by new ideas. This short film captures the moment when you lose control of your creation.”

“These short films are our slightly absurd way of exploring our inner denim demons,” adds Jason Denham, the brand’s founder and namesake. “It’s great to see the passion we put into our jeans return in the film.”

CREDITS:
Remake written by John Weich
Directed by Hugo Keijzer
Produced by Ellen Utrecht
Cinematography by Robbie van Brussel
Production Design by Simon Bowles
Edited by Nils Rensen
Costume by Denham the Jeanmaker

Google Presents: Inside Abbey Road

Inside Abbey Road makes it possible for anyone around the world to step inside the iconic Abbey Road Studios the spiritual home of British Music and follow in the footsteps of musical legends. Explore the rooms, discover stories, historic images and videos, and play with innovative Abbey Road equipment.

Pumphouse Point, Tasmania

Constructed more than 70 years ago to pump water for hydro-electricity, the iconic Pumphouse has been given new life as a boutique wilderness retreat inside Tasmania’s World Heritage Area. With the incredible Pumphouse building sitting 250m out from the shore and the stunningly refurbished Lakehouse among the trees on the lake’s edge, Pumphouse Point showcases the simple excellence of the art deco era and offers a spectacular connection to the lake, the mountains and the forests beyond.

Apple Watch — Guided Tour

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An introduction to the unique technologies and interactions that make using Apple Watch a new, more personal experience.



Messages
See how to respond instantly to messages in a variety of fun ways, right from your wrist. 



Faces
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Digital Touch
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Please Stay Positive - Jeremy Flores

At only 18, Jeremy Flores was the youngest surfer to be on the WCT, the world's surfing elite. Surrounded by a team of professionals and an entire nation, Jeremy even won the most prestigious of competitions, at Pipeline Hawaii, in 2010. But the pressure, criticism, and his fiery temperament eroded little by little his hopes of becoming world champion.
At the end of his tether, on July 13, 2014 at JBay in South Africa, after losing a heat, Jeremy Flores immediately contested his score with the judges,
in what was deemed a verbal assault by the World Surfing League.
As a result of his actions, Flores received a one-month ban
from the competition for bringing the sport into disrepute. This film was shot during his hiatus in Tahiti.
Nowadays, Jeremy Flores has rediscovered what he loves doing most in the world - surfing. Sebastien Zanella, the editor of Desillusion magazine, followed the man during his forced holiday break, resulting in an outstanding documentary, from hell to heaven, an atmospheric peer-review where Jeremy tells his story, with no concessions.


Directed by Sebastien Zanella 
Filmed by Chris Bryan, Sebastien Zanella, Pierre David & Jeremy Graham 
Produced by Nicolas Dazet


Music: Helios – Halving the compass
Locrian & mamiffer – In fulminic blaze
Evan Caminiti – Absteigend 
Pajaro Sunrise – 086

In the Mood for Love

Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

Directed by Kar Wai Wong

cast with Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Rebecca Pan.

Patrons - Spring Summer 2015 - Ad campaign

Patrons summer campaign directed by C+M, starring model Kevin Drelon.

SHOWPIECE

Wearable music controller
Concept and design Ylenia Gortana
Music and performance Birdmask

What to Do in Lisbon, Portugal, 36 Hours Travel Videos, The New York Times

Throughout this hilly city on the Tejo River, structures and spaces are being stylishly reborn, harboring chic boutiques, galleries and new spots for eating and drinking.

Produced by: Fritzie Andrade

Oh Yoko! - John Lennon

Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like…??

Here is the petetion for the return - Save Twin
Please sign.

Timelapse of Dubai

Directed by Ingo Enzi of Media Studio

Style.com’s Guide to Denim Shopping in NYC

Fashion Market Director Rachael Wang visits the top shops for every budget in NYC.

True Detective Season 2 Teaser

True Detective starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch premieres 6/21.

Maison Margiela Autumn-Winter 2015 Womenswear

New MacBook review: a tiny glimpse at the future

Apple's newest MacBook is tiny, thin, light, and kind of amazing. But is it powerful enough? Is it worth the price?

Highsnobiety Magazine Issue 10 featuring Marcelo Burlon Spring/Summer 2015

Björk - Black Lake

Commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and directed by Andrew Thomas Huang with dresses by Iris van Herpen.

Louis Vuitton Men's Spring 2015 Collection

Kim Jones takes inspiration from India for the latest Men's Spring 2015 Campaign: an exploration of the origins of menswear.