United Kingdom
Fashion & Film writer/researcher. Screenwriter. Writes in third person where needs be. Native to all coffee shops north of the river.
Written for Olga Anderson
A woman in theater writes that female creatives are underpaid and undervalued.
Change requires a force of ingenuity and innovation; a collection of voices and ideas that rethink the landscape-especially when it comes to fashion and sustainability. And sometimes those voices and forces exist in the most uncommon of places.
The evolution of fashion film: from advertising to experimental and narrative film. Fashion films have been trying to grasp the film industry as its own.
An action, act, or scene must somehow transition. Match cut, jump cut, match-on-action and eyeline-matches, are but a handful of techniques used.
My own initiation into fashion film was a hesitant one, uncertain as to whether fashion films could ever be situated on the same spectrum as traditional film. The role that fashion film plays within cinema is still relatively undiscovered. Films dissected by Stella Bruzzi (1999) have often explored
Dafina Zeqiri is living a somewhat peripatetic life. From Sweden and Kosovo, she now resides in New York. It's a place she has fallen in love with and somewhere to call home as she navigates the rest of the world with her music. But America was always on the cards for Zeqiri.
Enfield will become an epicentre of female empowerment through cinema across the second week of Black History Month. Opening its doors for the community this October, a small but significant event to celebrate an array of strong films will be hosted at Dugdale Centre, alongside the Make It Happen Organisation.
"We know that violence against women is not confined to any class, race or creed. In this work I wanted to redraw the "universal" in such a way that, even though we are witnessing particular cases we are forced to reflect on the values in our own culture and society rather than merely distancing ourselves...
