Layering: Fashion, Art, Cinema

A three-day festival of film screenings, talks and panels exploring the links between fashion, cinema and art. Presented in association with Miami International Film Festival and Miami Design District.

The festival programme staged a dialogue between cinema, fashion and art as three distinct areas of creative practice bound by considerable affinities, overlaps and continuities. Highlighting a range of poetic sensibilities in showing dress and the adorned body in motion, the festival mixed up artist, avant-garde and underground cinema with early advertising and documentary films, as well as contemporary fashion films. Layering presented an intricate spectrum of creative approaches and encounters' with shorts by major artists, designers, filmmakers and image-makers, including Sonia Delaunay, José Rodriguez Soltero, Nick Knight, John Maybury, Charles Atlas, Iris van Herpen, Nino Oxilia, and Jacques Baratier shown alongside anonymous works. Through these, the festival aimed to exorcise some of the polarizations habitually made in debates about art and commerce, while at the same time contributing to such debate by exploring its nuances in today's fashion image-making practice.

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