VMG | A Video Poem on Time | 01 March 202 – FESCH.TV

VMG | A Video Poem on Time | 01 March 202 & FESCH.TV:

Thoughts: I am now in the Diploma semester and I, like many diploma students, feel like a part of me will “die” but, particularly, that I need to “make the accounts” with my memories so far, kind of like when someone dies in real life and their life passes by their eyes. Luckily, I am in good health and am excited for my professional future.

Creative process: this video started out as a moodboard or a video-vision-board. It kind of turned out into a more-or-less-good poem about the feeling of being in diploma and dreaming without barriers for later in life.

Feelings I hope I transmit: resilience, hope, ambition and inspiration, joy, curiosity.

References
(Video) Black screen and (audio) architect Frank Gehry speaking: he may be trashed in Europe but I have watched his masterclass in 2020 (boring lockdown in home-office) and discovered his logic, reason; he may be considered post-modern or “trash” but so far his house in Santa Monica project (the kitchen) has been a core architectural memory for me. The towers chosen are because Gehry asked for ‘Bernini curves’ as opposed to ‘Michelangelo curves’ and I think that is a very next-level understanding of art and architecture.
(Audio)F Gehry + (Video) Iris Van Herpen making-of: the content I watch is rather the making of clothes rather than building sites. It fascinates me way more (as opposed to later, a timelipse of a building site). My creative corner in my student-room is a small sewing atelier and not a model making atelier…
(Audio) Nina Simone – a speech on time before playing “Who knows where the time goes”. Also a core memory of mine (2020 on an internship in Basel) wondering “how to not waste this time that we collectively have in solitude?” It is also a reflection on my life and pieces of knowledge that now I want to connect, even if they may seem discrepant now.
Coco avant Chanel, 2009: that one time I took my girlies to the cinema (my 13th birthday) we could choose between Harry Potter and Coco Avant Chanel. And it was no accident that I argued for the biographical one. We understood nothing at the time, I came out of the cinema feeling heavy but, the final scene was a hit of beauty that I still preserve. She, in the scene, is also remembering her life (like me right now) so it fits into the picture of the themes of “time” and “magic of life”.
(Video-audio) me playing the Harp like a beginner: I have always attempted to try new things. Music and not bringing it forward over the years are one regret of mine. I am not afraid to show myself as a beginner since getting over the embarrassment is important. Showing my face: through the harp, a little hidden by the strings, like generations Z and Alpha who show themselves less and less on social media.
Screen recording of my IG account: I use it in a very millennial way, as a documentation of memories, and everything I see that I find inspiring. A bit like a self-made Pinterest. 2013 was the year when I finally made it to Vienna Fashion Week (aged 17).
(Audio) Zuhair Murad A/W 2013 – the same year that I went to Vienna Fashion Week – Zuhair Murad inspired my high-school prom dress – that I made together with my mom who is also a good tailor. It is of course a beautiful soundtrack of contemporary-classical music such as Olafur Arnolds and Ludovico Einaudi. The contemporary-classical in music is what I would like to translate into fashion design.