Collaboration 1.20

 Mary Ellen Mark:

 Cindy Sherman:

Edward Hopper:

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The Emotional Fashion Film: Sleepwalking in the Rift

I'm speechless after watching the fashion film "Sleepwalking in the Rift" for the Maiyet Resort 2013 collection. Accompanied by a powerful score and beautiful visuals, director Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) creates a stunning narrative fashion film in a mere two minutes. His filming style is distinct and unique to his personal vision and comes across here. The voiceovers provide an intimate view into the characters of the film, something that is most commonly substituted with any random model for most fashion films and campaigns.

Most fashion films leave us feeling satisfied with the visuals but I love finding rare films like these that make the fashion industry and the collaboration between fashion and the visual arts seem worthwhile, new and meaningful. I think what makes this so incredible is the use of a feature film director to shoot a short film. I think fashion filmmakers need to start thinking in narratives or stories to make the campaign impactful. It isn't enough to just look pretty, I  hope we start seeing films with more depth than what people have been used to in the past.

Watch the film here. 

Read another review of the film on Elle.com

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Shift

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The Components of a BK Shoot

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Pairings

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A Year Remembered: 2012 in Berlin and Ithaca

I spent half of 2012 in Berlin and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. A brief recount of my time spent abroad:

My street:

My stop on the U-Bahn:

Zehlendorf:

A brief yet memorable trip to Duisburg and Aachen to visit Kirsten!

Back to an incredibly cold and snowy Berlin. Ice skating on the Krumme Lanke Lake:

 A visit to the Treptower Park in Berlin with my second (German) family:

 Berlin and the Fernsehturm:

 Brandenburger Tor:

A view inside the Reichstag:

 View from one of my language intensive classrooms in Mitte:

 Alexanderplatz Station that I walked past every day:

 Berliner Dom and the Fernsehturm:

Brandenburger Tor:

Spring break in London visiting a few friends:

And a 3 day solo trip to Edinburgh:

Another long weekend with a good friend from school in Amsterdam:

 More exploring in Berlin (the Hauptbahnhof):

I helped one of my oldest friends start painting his new apartment:

Spent a long break in Prague with friends I was studying in Berlin with:

 May 1st spent at a rave with thousands of Gemans at an abandoned Nazi airport (Templehof):

 Prenzlauerberg:

Gay pride parade ending at the Brandenburger Tor:

Second to last week in Germany traveling around a few different cities (Dresden):

My first ICE train from Dresden passing through Frankfurt to Cologne: 

Spent a few days visiting a good friend from high school in Cologne:

 My friend from high school and I traveled to Munich for another short visit:

We stayed at a great hostel where everyone was piled into one massive tent and gave people the opportunity to meet one another:

 Traveled with my German family to the forests in the suburbs of Berlin:

 We all also took a great day trip to a beautiful lake an hour or so outside of Berlin:

 We stopped at a beautiful castle on the way home and I took a few pictures:

 After 5 1/2 months I move out of my apartment in late July:

 A view of Alexanderplatz at dusk (right around the corner from where I lived):

 One of my best friends, Julie, came and spent the last week and a half with me in Berlin:

 After one of the best times of my life I came back to Ithaca and did an amazing photo shoot with friends and started my last semester at IC off to a great start:

I was also in my senior capstone class in photography at my college and had an amazing senior show. Below are a few pictures from my workshop project on the formation of identity in adolescent girls:

All images © Mathea Millman 2012.

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