Concrete Island was created by Daniel Askill, Lorin Askill and Michelle Jank to showcase Acne’s Cruise 2011 collection. With a mesmerising sense of perpetual motion, cameras rotate 360 degrees around a smoky room. This is juxtaposed with still imagery of models, mannequins and mirrors. It’s a surreal carousel ride in metallic and grey hues, and it’s beautiful, albeit dizzying, to watch. The collection itself is characterised by elegant drapery and sleek evening dresses.
"It's about girls who sleep in abandoned cars and set things on fire. It's about the great things in life. The stars in the sky and lots of malt liquor." - Harmony Korine
In the same theatrical vain as the late McQueen, oversized meringue-like layers billow out over an abandoned warehouse rooftop in Ziad Ghanmen's Marni Hollande directed S/S 2010 video.
Model Jme Abbott is a barefoot messiah descending an iron fire escape stairwell and sweeping past industrial fans with solipsistic assurance and a flailing cape.
A nod to London's vibrant multicultural society, a constant source of inspiration for Ghanmen, the video ends dramatically with fabric oozing bright blue paint, imbuing and embellishing white hospital garb with spirographic patterns.
Soundtracked by the Velvet Underground, with the white on white colour palette and heavy black boots reminiscent of the droogs in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
The Cat Piano is an 8-minute short film by The People’s Republic of Animation, co-directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson, and produced by Jessica Brentnall. The story is told in the form of a poem written by Eddie White, which is narrated by the always amazing Nick Cave.