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Can’t Stop Me Anymore
Mr Zoot Suit
Beauty Boys
Beware of a Holy Whore
Jeff (Lou Castel), a director, and his star actor (Eddie Constantine) are taking their time getting to the set of the movie they’re currently working on. In the absence of these key figures, the film crew lacks a purposeful way to spend their time, so they drink heavily. However, as booze is downed and boredom and frustration set in, morale hits rock bottom. When Jeff and the male lead finally show, the director is enraged by his crew’s slovenliness, and the production spirals into chaos. Jealousy, competition and despair are ruling. Nobody seems to be able to break through this atmosphere, so they all still try to make the best out of the situation, but this is probably not the way to finish the film.
Celine and Julie Go Boating
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality. When Celine (Juliet Berto) goes traipsing across a Parisian park, unwittingly dropping first a scarf, then other objects, Julie (Dominique Labourier) cannot help but follow her, picking up each item. So begins a fanciful relationship between the two, which soon sees Celine sharing Julie’s apartment and each of them playfully switching identities in their daily lives. As they increasingly indulge their fantasies, they find themselves trying to rescue a young girl from a supposedly haunted house.
Ticket of No Return
She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter day to leave La Rotonda… She purchased a ticket of no return to Berlin-Tegel. She wanted to forget her past, or rather to abandon it like a condemned house. She wanted to concentrate all her energies on one thing, something all her own. To follow her own destiny at last was her only desire. Berlin, a city in which she was a complete stranger, seemed just the place to indulge her passion undisturbed. Her passion was alcohol, she lived to drink and drank to live, the life of a drunkard. Her resolve to live out a narcissistic, pessimistic cult of solitude strengthened during her flight until it reached the level at which it could be lived. The time was ripe to put her plans into action.
Episode 1
In this pilot episode you will be listening to an interview with social anthropologist Magda Craciun touching on the symbolic weight of clothing from a socio-cultural point of view. In the second part, hang on to Ilinca Hărnuț’ words, as she is interpreting fragments from designer’s Ana Alexe atelier journal, with a soundscape by Diana Miron. Don’t be afraid to listen with your eyes closed.
Magda Crăciun is a social anthropologist specialising in material culture. She has previously explored Islamic fashion in Turkey and issues of authenticity and inauthenticity in relation to mundane engagements with fake brands in Romania and Turkey. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London and is currently working on the articulations of aesthetics, ethics and politics pertinent to middle-class formation in Romania.