Earlier this year, I had the privilege of meeting fashion designer Elisa Palomino. She had previously designed for fashion houses such John Galliano, Cavalli, Dior, and Diane Von Furstenberg. After seeing her extraordinary debut collection, I was inspired to make a short film. Over the past few months, I have been compiling footage of her building the second collection after launching her own label in February with her husband, Tristan Von Christann. My approach to this short documentary was to emphasize the craft of the collection itself. This video focuses on a few key pieces of her Spring 2011 collection, and an inside look at Elisa’s design process. This film is a shortened version of a longer documentary in the works. See Elisa’s entire collection here.
Huntress Dreaming focuses on a sequence which illustrates the ambiguity of the unconscious mind, and in the case of Atalanta the Huntress, it prefigures a future event. This film is not intended as a retelling of the Greek Myth but utilizes these elements to create a world of archetypes. This is inspired by my interest in symbolism, ancient ritual, myth, and the mystery of the wilderness.
Nature symbolizes the primordial unconscious, idealized as an unsullied pure land, a space out of time. Atalanta represents the human interpretation of this wilderness, the logic discovered in a dream. The golden apples symbolize a tangible link to the realm of the gods, and ultimately lead to a spiritual awakening.
Most of my film projects are dedicated to clips I put together for the fashion website, Modern Glossy. Below is one of my favorites, which features Tadashi Shoji backstage during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.You can see all the videos I created for Modern Glossy here.
Below is a more personal work, one I created over a period of one year, taking time-lapse footage with a Nikon P-5100 in New York, New Jersey and Colorado. I was inspired by the films of Ron Fricke.
