Film by: Ruth Hogben
Styling: Ellie Grace Cumming
Performance: Esme Bianco and Valeria Dragova
It kinda looks like porn, right? Something like the classic fetish coffee table “Jeux de Dames Cruelles” turned into a silent film. It’s quite stunning and also a little bit dishonest, that Andrew Blake’s name doesn’t pop up near as often as it should.
The “pornographic auteur” with his busty, beautiful models, hyper-aesthetical cinematography and the notorious use of slow motion seems like the one, big repressed birth attendant of fashion film. Especially directors, who are more interested in showing the wonderful anatomy of man (better: women) than feature the clothes, should come out of the closet, already. Not everything has to be claimed as art.
It’s interesting to note, that this film’s title used to be “English” (for reasons that remain unclear) and was later changed to “Buttocks”. Which, obviously, does it’s content way better justice. And feels kind of honest, too.
After all, fashion film is as good a pretense as any to produce (good) pornography.
