Anorexia. Story of an Image (Anorexia. Storia Di Un'Immagine)
(Italy,25 min.)
Director: Leandro Manuel Emede
Cast:
Oliviero Toscani, Isabel Caro, Vittorio Feltri, Vittorio Sgarbi
When Italian fashion house Nolita used an enormous nude photo of an emaciated, 23-year-old actress as the central image in its advertising campaign with the headline "No anorexia," it split public opinion. The provocative photo shot by Oliviero Toscani is the focal point of this fascinating short on how the image was created and received.
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Face Addict
(Italy/Switzerland,102 min.)
Director: Edo Bertoglio
Cast:
Walter Steding, Glenn O'Brien, John Lurie, Maripol, Deborah Harry, Wendy Whitelaw, James Nares, Victor Bockris
After a 15-year absence, Swiss fashion photographer Edo Bertoglio returns to New York, home of the seminal punk, New Wave and downtown art scenes he helped chronicle in the Seventies and Eighties. Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Jean-Michel Basquiat and dozens more created groundbreaking work - until heroin and AIDS ravaged their numbers.
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Filmphobia (FilmeFobia)
(Brazil,80 min.)
Director: Kiko Goifman
Cast:
Jean-Claude Bernardet, Cris Bierrenbach, Hilton Lacerda, Livio Tragtenberg and Ravel Cabral
In Kiko Goifman's fictional "making of," a film director (Jean-Claude Bernardet) explores people's irrational fears in the intimate environment of a film set. There, a succession of "volunteers" face their phobias, everything from snakes to butterflies to blood. Top prize winner at the Brasilia Film Festival.
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