This week the Dutch gentleman’s style journal ‘Fantastic Man’ is showing a five-part fashion film series, in which figure skaters – dressed in Prada in yesterday’s film, and today in Hermes – show off their skills in extreme slow motion. The clips come from Amsterdam artist duo Lernert & Sander, who have gained worldwide renown with their subversive video and installation art.
Produced by fashion and luxury studio White Lodge, the extreme slow-motion images were taken using a full 360° spin technique with a Photron BC2 camera, which captures two thousand frames per second. This results in the surreal effect, in which a tenth of a second seems to stretch out to one minute.
The films will also be shown from 7 – 9 October at the fourth ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival’ at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. An unmistakeable sign that the two publishers of the ‘Fantastic Man’ magazine, designer Jop Van Bennekom and journalist Gert Jonkers, (who are also involved in magazine gems like The Gentlewoman, Re-Magazine and Butt) have once again come up trumps with this unconventional project.
