a Super Eight short by Adarsha Benjamin for Pas Un Autre

Barcelona hosts the first-ever Spanish edition of A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) created by Diane Pernet. A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) is an event that gathers together celebrated personalities from the worlds of fashion, art and cinema. The Barcelona edition will be innovative in launching the world’s first MOBILE FASHION FILM COMPETITION where two prizes will be awarded to the best short films produced on a mobile phone. ASVOFF Barcelona will be held at CaixaForum Barcelona from 24-27, January 2012.

Super 8 fragments from Inspirations from a Broken Heart a series by Adarsha Benjamin. Music : After Glows by The Range of Light Wildnerness. View video after the jump. [CONTINUE....]

Amuse is a fashion film by Berlin based Nicolai Niermann and Phillip Humm, and styled by Augustin Teboul, for ASVOFF (A Shaded View On Fashion Film) Festival. For the first time, Barcelona will hold the 1st edition of ASVOFF from January 24th until the 27th at CaixaForum Barcelona. View film after the jump. [SEE MORE...]

On view this month at the MMK Museum in Frankfurt, the short Super 8 films of Anja Czioska in a retrospective of the filmmaker’s twenty-year career. “I will show bathing and shower filmportraits of me and my friends, experimental film visions on single-frame, performances, happening, portraits, me and my camera, scenes of daily art like filmed during my travellings to Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and home base diaries of a Frankfurt artist’s life,” says Czioska. On view January 25 at the MMK in Frankfurt Lecture Hall.

Henry Hopper as Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain, lead singer for the band Nirvana, has been dead for nearly 18 years, but for those who lived or grew up in the periphery of his artistic and musical contributions, his legacy will live on and in the future his music will undoubtably be bequeathed to other generations to share.  Cobain, a casualty of his own genius and subsequent fame, and a victim of dependence on the protective shields, namely heroin, that one uses to protect themselves from the burden of human commoditization has become an icon.  With what he hoped a bullet would achieve still could not release his personality from the shackles from which he was so tightly bound. But does everything really have to be such a tragedy? “It’s better to burn out than to fade away,” Cobain once wrote in his journal, borrowing  a line from a Neil Young song, but it couldn’t be truer.  At the young age of 27 Cobain was dead and forever his image will be trapped in that impenetrable mirage of myth. Cobain was a representative to an entire culture of youth searching for that voice to air their angst – he was the epitome of the teenage rebel – not in age, but in metaphor and his lyrics were the soliloquy of life’s dark, unanswerable questions. Sometimes its take 20 years to realize that once someone is gone you can’t go back and beg for answers – questions begin to pile up like kind of unpayable debt on our curiosity.  Adarsha Benjamin, who grew up around Seattle in the 90s, knows the Cobain myth well and through artistic exploration attempts to answer some of those questions and perchance pay some of the debt.  The project, which is currently in the works, is an art film by Benjamin in collaboration with Nina Ljeti that abstractly portrays the many masks of the Cobain myth, and is more so a “retrospective” of Kurt Cobain, exploring the many facets of his personality and life through multiple actors including Benjamin herself and Henry Hopper. The project, which is tentatively called ‘Kurt’, is still in production and has no set date for release, but Pas Un Autre was able to get a hold of a few production stills from a recent day on set in Brooklyn and ask Adarsha Benjamin a few questions. Read interview after the jump.  [SEE MORE....]

Paz de la Huerta stars in a fashion film by Nicole Nodland entitled Entering the Void for the current Friday issue of the London Evening Standard Magazine.

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