15, 16, 17 June

The London-based Fashion in Film Festival has compiled a special programme for the Arnhem Fashion Biennale. This film festival is a co-production with the Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design in London and, following a successful collaboration with the Museum of Moving Image in New York, was invited to participate in the Arnhem Fashion Biennale.

Who are you, Polly Maggoo?
Directed by William Klein, 1966, 102 mins.
With its critical commentary on the fashion and cinematic art of the 1960s, ‘Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?’ is an uncompromising parody. Like Antonioni’s ‘Blow-Up’, this film
adopts a critical stance on the world of fashion and media.

De Steenfabriek
15 June 19.00 hrs
Admission to the main exhibition includes access to the opening of Fashion in Film Festival

Assuming a pose
An introduction by Anneke Smelik, professor at the Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Programme of Short Films including ‘Four Beautiful Pairs’, ‘Mannequins for Sale’ and ‘It’s Like Being’. Striking a pose, dressing up, staging and masking are at the heart of this programme, which plays on cinema’s
preoccupation with moments where reality meets fiction.

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
16 June 16.00 hrs

Shoes, eroticism and fetish
An introduction by Christel Tsilibaris, co-curator of the Fashion in Film Festival.
Programme of Short Films including The Gay Shoe Clerk, Shoes Talk Too and Diary of a Chambermaid. Women’s shoes trigger amorous behaviour and sexual fixations that can cause a breakdown in social etiquette.
These films provide an impression of the various routines of wearing and showing off shoes for the camera, concentrating on notions of exhibitionism, voyeurism and lust.

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
16 June 19.30 hrs

The enigma of clothing
An introduction by Marketa Uhlirova, co-curator of the Fashion in Film Festival.
Programme of Short Films, including The Extinct World of Gloves, Ghosts before Breakfast and Tough Stockings. This programme celebrates the secret life of clothing and the enigmatic qualities they possess. Clothes are cloth, but when filmed
independently of the body parts that normally give them meaning, they are revealed as estranged, dreamlike, playful and elusive.

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
16 June 19.30 hrs

Paris is burning
Directed by Jennie Livingston, 1991, 71 mins
A surprise hit when the film opened in New York, this documentary reveals the downtown community of black and Latino drag queens who invented ‘voguing’, both embracing and spoofing the world of high
fashion.

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
17 June 16.00 hrs

Liquid sky
Directed by Slava Tsukerman, 1982, 112 mins
In this time-capsule cult favourite, with an abundance of fashion from the early 1980s, a pleasure-seeking alien ends up in the heart of New York and gets caught up in a world of casual sex and heroin abuse with the hipsters Margaret and Larry.

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
17 June 19.30 hrs

€ 5,50 per film
€ 20,– passe-partout

De Steenfabriek
Start at Museum voor Moderne Kunst
Arnhem
Utrechtseweg 87
6812 AA Arnhem
T +31 26 3535632

Please note that the route from the museum to De Steenfabriek takes at least 30 mins. If you want to visit the main exhibition we advise you to arrive 90 mins before the programme starts

Focus Filmtheater Arnhem
Korenmarkt 42
6811 GW Arnhem
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