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Moments of Passion and Pain "Not being able to feel the pleasure of seeing a magnificent landscape with someone else is a form of torture. That is why I started taking photographs. I wanted to eternalise those moments of passion and pain" - Abbas Kiarostami Moments of Passion and Pain is a multi-media zine comprised of original photographs (35mm), poems, prose, and illustration. It was produced for my second-year FMP at college. The title Moments of Passion and Pain (I'll refer to it as MoPaP from here on) is a reference to the filmmaker and photographer Kiarostami whose nature photography and attitudes towards art heavily inspired me. Throughout the zine I also reference E.M Forster, whose eternal genius and understanding of life, I hope to reference more in my work. The zine can mean anything you want it to mean or absolutely nothing at all. But if you happen to be interested what I had in mind as I designed it, read on. I was inspired to mak...

Dogme 95 & The Minnesota Declaration

Dogme 95 "My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings." What interests me about the Dogme 95 manifesto (the films it produced, and the people that produced it) is the reactive response it tends to provoke. There was lots of literature out there on the web about Dogme 95, a stark contrast to my research into Valentine de Saint-Point. Dogme 95 was a response to the CGI-blockbusters that (may have lacked artistic integrity) had huge budgets out of reach of independent filmmakers. But even saying this makes me feel uncomfortable - it feels like a too text book way to describe anything that provokes von Treir. I think people resent the manifesto, and von Trier because he makes people anxious. He makes people anxious because you never know how seriously to take him; Dogme 95 is no different. After reading out the ‘Vow of Chastity’ and manifesto in the Paris Odeon, von Trier threw red leaflets containing the manuscript into the crowd, declared he could ...

Armour for The Apocalypse: A New Fashion Era

A NEW FASHION ERA : ARMOUR FOR THE APOCALYPSE Harry, Yasmin, Mike, Luke, Carla BRAINSTORMING RESEARCH - We researched sustainable materials. MOODBOARDS PLANNING AND MOCK UPS PROCESS - the hands on the logo is ESL for 'horse', there are 4 to symbolise the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The colours represent the colours of those horses. The eye is a reference to the biblical description of angels and a symbol of judgement, enlightenment, and conscience. - The materials we used were all clothes that we don't wear anymore, lots of the clothes we used had become to small for us. To make a pattern for the hoodie we unpicked an old hoodie. For the arms we used a pair of sweatpants. I liked this way of making clothes - it made me unexpectedly happy to see my old sweatpants become something new. - We also had time to quickly make a gillet out of our unused scraps. If we had more time I would have liked to have spent more time making it more structured. - the ribbon detailing on th...