Gareth Pugh: Insensate

[Secretside]

Conjuring a macabre phantasmagoria that unfurls before your eyes like a sinister but beautiful bloom, Insensate showcases the brutal geometry and raw creative fire of Gareth Pugh's A/W 2008 collection to truly bewitching effect. Set to a thundering, atmospheric soundtrack specially devised by artist Matthew Stone and utlising Pugh's twin cinematic inspirations of Predator and The Wizard of Oz as an aesthetic starting-point, this film takes us on a mesmerising, monochrome whirlwind ride, creating a chilling yet compelling world of complex reflection, refraction and glittering incandescence melting in and out of inky black.

[sam_tem]

that's a nice worthless aquarius records type description there

[Jon]

from dazed (collaboration w/ nick knight)? LINK

[Secretside]

the film was made in collaboration with nick/showstudio -- the link to the video is attached to the image (just in case anyone missed it).

http://www.showstudio.com/project/insensate/

[electric_alyce]

God, I love the soundtracks of Mathew, almost the best part of it all

[Faust]

Conjuring a macabre phantasmagoria that unfurls before your eyes like a sinister but beautiful bloom, Insensate showcases the brutal geometry and raw creative fire of Gareth Pugh's A/W 2008 collection to truly bewitching effect. Set to a thundering, atmospheric soundtrack specially devised by artist Matthew Stone and utlising Pugh's twin cinematic inspirations of Predator and The Wizard of Oz as an aesthetic starting-point, this film takes us on a mesmerising, monochrome whirlwind ride, creating a chilling yet compelling world of complex reflection, refraction and glittering incandescence melting in and out of inky black.

Paging Alan Sokal

[Fuuma]

Paging Alan Sokal

To be fair it properly describes what goes on in the video. Not that I'm a hige fan of what has been done but I wouldn't say the goal is to obscure inasmuch as to give it a sheen of intellect.

[Faust]

To be fair it properly describes what goes on in the video. Not that I'm a hige fan of what has been done but I wouldn't say the goal is to obscure inasmuch as to give it a sheen of intellect.

Right (although I see neither Terminator nor Wizard of Oz). By the way, Beyonce looks good in the opening...

[stylekills]

the predator/wizard of oz references were the inspirations pugh declared at the point of the show.

I would be interested as to how someone else would succinctly synopsis a non-narrative film like this.

[Faust]

the predator/wizard of oz references were the inspirations pugh declared at the point of the show.

I would be interested as to how someone else would succinctly synopsis a non-narrative film like this.

Beyonce in Gothic Wonderland

[editevening]

ya i agree.. soundtrack is the best part where as the visuals are meh.

[Fade to Black]

yeah i think Beyonce in general has been rocking the Pugh quite well...then again, bein a childhood crush of mine, I think she looks good in anything.

[Chinorlz]

Definitely got the Predator feel with the hand positions and sharp fingertips... as for the Wizard of Oz...

pretty cool video though!

[Faust]

Definitely got the Predator feel with the hand positions and sharp fingertips... as for the Wizard of Oz...

pretty cool video though!

Part 2.

[noerml]

call me stupid ..but how do i download the full picture? (obviously no the pdf file ^^)

is there a way to save the whole flash file zoomed in?