Palazzo Grassi Celebrates 10 Years of Fashion in Film Festival

Held at the 'Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi' in Venice on two consecutive evenings, this public programme of film screenings and talks showcased art, advertising and industry films from the silent period to the 1970s. The programme presented a wide context for today's fashion film, by reflecting on the interfaces between the worlds of fashion, cinema and art. The event combined archival shorts from British Pathé and The Library of Congress with films by avant-garde artists and early filmmakers including Georges Méliès, Hans Richter, Sonia Delaunay, Man Ray, Kenneth Anger and Christine Noll Brinckmann. The second screening was the Italian premiere of 'The Inferno Unseen', a film exclusively composed of screen tests in preparation for Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished film The Inferno (1964). In parallel to this Palazzo Grassi also held a three-day workshop for IUAV students, organised by Alessandra Vaccari (IUAV, Venice) and Caroline Evans (CSM). The project received coverage in the national Italian press (Vogue Italia, Corierre della Sera, Arttribune, La Repubblica and other press).