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Arguably more fashion-specific documentaries have been lensed in the past four years, than in the last two decades combined, with offerings including Lagerfeld Confidential (2007), Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton (2007), Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008), The September Issue (2009) and Picture Me (2009). That's not counting the recent proliferation of fashion shorts and videos, whose distribution has obviously been facilitated by the net. For anyone who is interested in seeing some older examples of the frockumentary genre, in addition to some less high-profile recent examples and who happens to be in Melbourne next week, this year's L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, which officially kicks off tomorrow - and which frockwriter will be attending as a guest of the organisers and Tourism Victoria - has an abundance of offerings.
As part of its ongoing fashion on film series, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image [ACMI] is running a festival dedicated to the model doco called Fashion Models on Film.
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ACMI's screenings kicked off on Thursday with Picture Me, but here is the remainder of the program:
Picture Me Sun 13 Mar 2011, 5.30pm
Model Sun 13 Mar 2011, 7.30pm
Catwalk Mon 14 Mar 2011, 3.30pm
Dressed for Summer 2011 Mon 14 Mar 2011, 5.30pm
Model Mon 14 Mar 2011, 7.30pm
Picture Me Tue 15 May 2011, 2.30pm
Model Wed 16 May 2011, 2.30pm
Dressed Up Wed 16 May 2011, 7.30pm
Catwalk Thu 17 Mar 2011, 2.30pm
ACMI
Address: Federation Square, Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 86632583
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On Monday this week, as part of the broader LMFF cultural festival, ACMI also hosted the launch event of a new Australian initiative called NoHome.tv.
Conceived by Alastair McCann and Justin Watson, NoHome.tv is a fashion film portal that will go live on March 20th, showcasing submissions from, among others, Alexi Freeman, Arabella Ramsay, Beat Poet, Carly Hunter, Limedrop, Orri Henrisson, Upper Left Arm and Sweden’s Acne – with consumers encouraged and enabled via the site to remix the films.
On Thursday, sadly prior to the arrival of many out-of-towners for LMFF, a separate project called FASHIONFILM screened a number of short films at the Rooftop Cinema in Melbourne’s CBD, notably Mark Skaszy’s Corrine Day Diary, which documented a decade in the life of the late, great British fashion photographer.
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