ALICE & OLIVIA Spring 2013 Fashion video
Take a look at some pictures and a few behind the scenes stills from the Alice & Olivia fashion film I directed out in New York back in December. It was shot over a day in their showrooms in New York and features models Ksenia Vasylchenko, Georgiana Sarev and Tali Lennox modelling Bendet’s Spring collection. The designer Stacey Bendet also appears in a brief cameo role. The film combines live-action and cut-out animation, a giant cut out heart and dozens of black telephones!!;)
Music is “Overdose” by indie pop trio Little Daylight.
To view the video see link below. Hope you enjoy it!
Crew – DP- Taylor Gentry // DP’s Assistant- Arlen Cooke // In-house Stylist – Cleo Wade // Hair – Danielle Priano // Make-up Jen Myles
Plus an amazing inhouse set and props team at A&O.
Behind scenes…
Here is the video -
BANG // MCS London
So as a lot of you are already aware Im a massive fan of the Spaghetti Western and the cowboy! At RCA I made a short animated western working with still images from a 70s comic book, the Lone Wolf and at the time I watched a number of Spaghetti Westerns. So when I came across this brilliant video Las Bandidas directed by Mathew Wilkinson featuring models Cara Delevigne, Clara Paget and Suki Waterhouse as cowgirls in a spaghetti western inspired short playful sketch for scrunchie brand MCS London I was super super excited. I absolutely love the intentionally obvious green screen and the sampled tracks, backgrounds and music! Its perfect!
Scroll down to see the video below..♥ ♥ ♥
Director: Matthew Wilkinson
Model: Cara Delevigne, Clara Paget,Suki Waterhouse
Producer: Eugina Simo Grijalbo
Make Up: Elias Hove
Hair: Clara Paget
Gender: Womenswear
Season: 2013 Spring/Summer
Season: 2013 Spring/Summer
Label: Emilie Morris
Film Brand: Emilie Morris
Noriko Okaku
This post is long overdue. Meet NORIKO OKAKU! Noriko studied animation alongside me at the Royal College of Art, although a year above. Noriko produces work in animated video, drawing, sculpture and audio/visual live performance.
Have a look at her Shape lush video below. LOVE IT! To see more of her work go here
PRADA Fall/Winter 2012 and more..
Sorry for my delay in posting! I have been super busy working on a fashion video for Alice & Olivia, but it will soon be finished and I cant wait to share.
In the meantime have a look at PRADA’s Fall/Winter 2012 video. I love its minimal movement and futuristic environments.
ART Direction by AMO: Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Fausto Fantinuoli
ARTWORK: Jeroen Koolhaas, Lok Jansen
EDITING and VISUAL FX: APRIL
PHOTOGRAPHY: Phil Meech
FILMING by APRIL: Matteo Frittelli, Gabrio Bellotti
MUSIC: Frédéric Sanchez
Also if you havent seen already check out the Spring/Summer 2011 video for PRADA. Some of my favourite moments in the stills below.
ASVOFF 5 in PARIS
Im back from Paris. It was great to see Papercut on the big screen at the Pompidou Centre!
Rossy de Palma gave a performance with musician Alexander Zekke on the opening night
There was a screening of William Klein’s Qui etes-vous Polly Maggoo?
Here are a couple of films from the festival below…
I especially enjoyed Hors D’Oeuvre by Monica Menez. Awarded – Best Art Direction. Her use of colour and set design was amazing.
Also somewhat different but have a look at this video Danny directed by Goran Grahovac (for the designer Tom Van Der Borght)
Music video with the band Kenji Minogue
Kenji Minogue performed in David Lynch’s Club Silencio at the Afterparty. They were totally mad but brilliant.
Coming soon ASVOFF 5
Just heading off to Paris to ASVOFF 5. PAPERCUT has been selected to be screened at the festival alongside work by Tim Walker/ Catherine O’Gorman, Johan Renck , Alex Turvey, Ellen Von Unwerth and more. I cannot wait!! xx
William Tempest River Island Fashion Film
Check out Ryan Hope’s new video for the BFC Fash/On Film initiative sponsored by River Island. The film was showcasing designer William Tempest’s AW 2012 collection. The video is one continuous steadycam shot. I enjoyed it, its well done. The casting is great and the clothes look fantastic. Absolutely love the knecklace shoulder piece that comes in at 5.01secs. Gorgeous! Great styling by Chloe Kerman.
River Island William Tempest Film
Director: Ryan Hope
Producer: Laura Jones
Exec Producer: Stephen Whelan
Director of Photography: Tony Miller
Steadicam: Simon Wood
Costume Stylist: Chloe Kerman
Make up Artist: Abigail Johnson
Hair Stylist: Claire Rothstein
Art Director: Anna Rhodes
Post Producer: Lesley Queen @ Prime Focus
Colourist: Rich Fearon @ Prime Focus
Flame Op: Dave Skippy Clifton @ Prime Focus
Music : Alex Jones & Ryan Hope
ION X ROWENA TRUE
Ive finally had a chance to post this fashion film I directed for ION Magazine’s September Issue. Scroll down to see the video below….
THE VIDEO:
Rowena True – Director & Animator
Alan Chan – Photographer
Tia – Model @ Lizbell Agency
Stylist – Deanna Palkowski
Stylist Assistant – Kristine Wilkinson
Hair and Make Up – Negar Hooshmand @ Lizbell Agency.
Music – Peaches
The studio we shot it in East Van Studios was awesome. Here are some pics:
Some of the clothes and accessories featured..
Left to right – Photographer Alan Chan, Director and Animator Rowena True, Stylist Deanna Palkowski and Assistant Stylist Kristine Wilkinson
ION behind scenes ★ So many shoes . . .
Yesterday I directed a stop-motion video for ION magazine. I collaborated with Photographer Alan Chan and Stylist Deanna Palkowski, Stylist Assistant Kristine Wilkinson, Make up / Hair Negar Hooshmand and model Tia S from Liz Bell. The video will be up in September. Excited!
Weather indoors
♥ Dutch Artist Berndnaut Smilde who creates temporary clouds using a smoke machine, combined with indoor moisture and dramatic lighting.
Nimbus II, 2012 cloud in room
Check out a video of him creating them in the space.
♥ Olafur Eliasson ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’ on the roof of the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark.
Milca Mayerová ABCEDA / ALPHABET 1926
LOVE these choreographed alphabet poses of Czech dancer Milca Mayerová from ABCEDA.
ABCEDA is a pioneering collaborative publication by Vitezslav Nezval, Karel Teige, dancer/choreographer Milcha Mayerova and photographer Karel Paspa.
This video below shows a performance produced by The Wolfsonian – Florida International University in conjunction with the exhibition “Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde”
PAPERCUT
My film is now up on vimeo! check it out..
DIRECTOR ROWENA TRUE
CINEMATOGRAPHER TODD DUYM
MODEL KRISTY JACOBSEN
STYLIST DEANNA PALKOWSKI
MAKE-UP JON HENNESSEY
HAIR TANIA BECKER
MUSIC MARSHEAUX
Thank you
NOBASURA
JASPER KIDD
BEN LEDERMAN
GEOFF HOWELL
OPEN STUDIOS
Christian Louboutin at the Design Museum
I have to go to the Christian Louboutin show at the Design Museum this week. Dying to see the exhibition finally especially the Dita von Teese hologram by Musion. The hologram is projected onto a stage in the main exhibition room thats shaped like an upside-down shoe! The exhibition was designed by Hackney studio Household and includes a shadow theatre, fetish room with photographs by David Lynch and a recreation of Louboutin’s Paris studio.
Have a look at the making of the hologram here
ALDO SS12
Ever since I saw the amazing ALDO shark head posters last year I have been meaning to post them up. But first check out Terry Richardson’s colourful slow-motion video for Aldo SS12 directed by Barnaby Roper below… 
Also some favourite pics below from the Dress the part with Aldo and Life’s a beach series
PAPERCUT – LET THEM EAT CAKE
The video is now up. Check it here - Let them eat cake
Hope you enjoy it!
Sedmikrásky (Daisies) – 1966
There are some amazing surreal sequences and colours in this Czech film Daisies directed by Věra Chytilová. LOVE the butterfly sequence starting at 0:25:58. See the whole film below..
I Love Robots -especially the ones from Batteries not Included!
If you havent seen the Numero 6 La Poste Transformer video below and his incredible MTV UFO hoax videos they are definitely worth a look at! pretty insane
Check the UFO hoaxs out HERE
Advanced Styling
I absolutely ♥ these women
The book ‘Advanced Styling’ by Ari Seth Cohen will be released on May 22 2012! To see more interviews go here
Fashion film shoot – behind the scenes
Here are some images from the shoot last weekend. The crew I worked with were AMAZING! I am so excited about this.
We shot it in OPEN studios, Vancouver BC. Huge thanks to Nobasura, Ben Lederman and Mike McSuede at Open Studios. Full list of everyone involved below…
HARK : Andrew Macgregor & Audrey Roger
DON’T MISS the private view of HARK at the Old Shoreditch Station in London on the 26th Jan!!!
My amazing friend Audrey Roger is colloborating with Andrew Macgregor and it looks like its going to brilliant. The duo are apparently creating paper landscapes of totem poles and shamanic stalactites woven together by an array of mirrors and lighting design. The focus of the project is a stop-motion animation film which I cant wait to see. Im sad to miss the private view but looking forward to seeing images.
iamamiwhoami
I cant stop listening to iamamiwhoami!! Wow -amazing music -so beautiful!
iamamiwhoami is an electronic music and multimedia project headlined by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. Her videos are full of stunning photography and art direction but be warned some of them definitely have the shock factor on first viewing. It will certainly make you look at loo roll in quite a different way! She won ”Innovator of the Year“ at the Swedish Grammis held on January 2011.
Poster for her Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden on 12 August 2011.
Have a look below at a variety of stills I sourced from a selection of videos. Ive also included three videos for you to see to give you a taster; clump, ; john and t.
Latest work – Fashion Film Prep
Over the last month I have been prepping for a fashion film I am directing in January.
These are a few stills from the storyboard. They are for storyboard reference only. Pictures are of found-photographs with cut-out and collage. The film involves lots of paper cut outs and geometry. It is a short fashion film involving stop-motion, cut-out animation and live-action. I cant say too much now except I am going to be working with cinematographer Todd Duym and a team from Nobasura will be on set with Rad Kid Kristy Jacobsen modeling. Guest stylist Deanna Palkowski is working closely with me too. I cant wait. You will be able to see it first on Let Them Eat Cake, London. I will keep you informed when its up. Currently finishing off the making of props – I cant wait to see the giant protractor in action..
Early sketchbook stills you may be interested to see.
