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Original Film Title: Disguise in Nature
Director’s Name: Maya Marzuki Peters
Writer’s Name: Maya Marzuki Peters
Producer: Maya Marzuki Peters
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 minute 36 seconds
Film Description:
This is an experimental fashion campaign for Sia Fang’s newest art work collection consisting of wearable fashion sculptures with a focus on the styling, atmosphere and storytelling.
For this project, We are studying some of the most complicated individuals we have come across in my life. These individuals celebrate one thing in common, charisma that is born in danger. They celebrate duality that they are blunt in tenderness and tough in fragility.
The mysteries in these humans are so intriguing, so Sia got inspired to refer to a series of plants and animals that mimic the shapes and texture of the unharmful but hide their edge in disguise. She borrows some of their characteristics to create this new layer of “skin” covering the flesh that grows in and out of the human skeletons. The species Sia studied and the creatures she created share one thing in common—the physical appeal, the charisma. These beings would pull you close, and let you indulge in their charm, make you obsess and fall, until you are all in and all stuck that it is too late to get away.
In order to reinforce the disguise, the design is contrasted with unremarkable, plain materials. We would like the experience to start from the easiness and openness of the pastel-colored shiny textured resin, then slowly reveal the edge by the skeleton-nature-inspired shape, transitioning into the suspicious, judgmental and questioning side of these creatures and turn the audiences around them.