My André’s drawing in his Show at Colette. Photo Olivier Zahm
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The Anchorage, a film by Anders Edström and Curtis Winter
I was knocked out the other night watching Anders Edström and Curtis Winter’s first feature-length film, The Anchorage, at Le Femis in Paris. Last year the film won the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Award. The starkly simple story is an incredible visual and sonic cinema experience. Shot during three October days on a small island in Sweden, an older woman, who lives alone in a sequestered house, is made anxious by the sudden appearance of a hunter she’s never seen before. With a brief voice-over and minimum dialogue, the 87-minute film reifies those three days in a concentration of long pans and quick cuts, each rich with ambient sound and stimulating visual textures. The result is the purest of cinema experiences. Edström, a master at incarnating light, was a long-time Purple photographer, since 1992. In this film he further proves his special genius. Los Angles-based Curtis Winter wrote the short script and was the film’s formal mastermind. Their collaboration is refreshing and unique, as is their film. A new project is now in the planning stages. Text by Jeff Rian
Acne The NYA Berlin sofa
“The Nya Berlin (New Berlin) was an archetypal piece of Carl Malmsten’s design and was created for use in the Swedish consulate in Berlin. With this sofa as a reference, I started to look at how we worked architecturally, instead of just treating say the upholstery. I decided as an alternative to objectify it’s form from a perspective play. As we do with fashion we played with the proportion, lineage, and structure — stretching, squashing, and pulling the simplistic shape to create new sculptural forms. Denim is our heritage and I thought it was super interesting to treat the upholstery in the same way as we approach our jeans — by washing, bleaching, and hand-drying the ieces to create very bespoke finishes.” Text by the designer Jonny Johansson at the presentation of Acne’s first furniture collection
Juergen Teller’s Touch Me show at Le Consortium, Dijon
Steve McQueen produced his new film, Static, especially for his exhibition at Marian Goodman uptown. The piece runs on a continuous loop and provides a never-ending 360 degree view of the Statue of Liberty. Shot from the air, the only sound is the noise of the helicopter. The camera bumps around and changes position at every moment—keeps the film from feeling too delicate as it captures beautiful angles and perspectives of the famous landmark. Text and photo Juliana Balestin
Dior Spring 2002 Couture and Fall 2003 RTW, a double page of Roxanne Lowit’s Backstage Dior, recently publised by teNeues