What Do Depeche Mode, Dior and Versailles Have In Common? Secret Garden, A Short Fashion Film by Inez and Vinoodh.

With a great song by Depeche Mode, stunning couture, sexy models and the luxurious Versailles Palace and Gardens as a backdrop, how can you go wrong? (Okay, so I could've done without the tear at the 2:30 mark...)



Photographers/directors Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin celebrate the newest collection from fashion house Dior with Secret Garden, a three minute and 41 second film featuring the looks of the Fall 2012 collection.



Model Daria Strokous invites you to follow her on a wondrous path that winds through the Galerie des Glaces, through the palace's endless interconnecting salons, as far as the grand tree-lined walks that sweep through the classic parkland à la française.





Along the way she's joined by fellow models Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju for a dreamlike fashion show where Versailles is transformed into Christian Dior's secret garden, his emblematic château. D'or et Dior.




credits:
Dior "Secret Garden Versailles" (long version)
Film by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin,
Models : Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju
Creative Direction : Robert Lussier & Mia Forsgren
Music : Depeche Mode "Enjoy the Silence"
Editor : Otto Arsenault
DP : Léo Hinstin
Lighting Director for Inez & Vinoodh : Jodokus Dreisen
Steadicam : Eric Bialas

Dior

60 Seconds of Fun. Award Winning Hahn's Super Dry Beer Pioneering Commercial.

In the Hahn brewery, superness is brewed into the beer at every stage of its creation. The Knight Rider song infuses the barley through massive speakers. Is pounded by body builders in leotards, exposed to kung fu movies, churned by a monster truck Delorean, mixed in an immense drum-kit, poured over a fountain of winning trophies, fermented in a jumpsuit wearing vat, and stroked by a smooth character as it fills a glass panther, before being approved by a CEO hovering outside in a solid gold helicopter. As the Hahn SuperDry exits the factory, each bottle capped by a uniformed ferret, a line appears:

Super goes in. Superdry taste comes out.


The 60 second TV commercial from Sydney agency Publicis Mojo was shot in Los Angeles with director Tom Kuntz, who previously won an Emmy for best commercial of the year with Old Spice’s ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’.

Tom Kuntz directed this visual-effects heavy commercial depicting a hyper-stylized Hahn Super Dry brewery where the "superness" - represented by a series of unorthodox influences - is infused and brewed into the beer at every stage of its creation.

While most of the VFX was completed by Eight VFX in California, VFX supervisor Scott Geerson put the finishing touches on this commercial in Flame at Cutting Edge Sydney with ECD Micah Walker and Producer Adrian. Also completed were a 45', 30', and four 15' versions.

Credits:
Director: Tom Kuntz
Agency: Publicis Mojo Sydney
Executive Creative Director: Micah Walker
Creative Team: Justine Armour, Ruth Bellotti
Agency Producer: Adrian Shapiro
Production: MJZ
Producer: Scott Kaplan
Editor: Gavin Cutler @MacKenzie Cutler
Post Produciton: Eight VFX (LA) and Cutting Edge Sydney
Sound Design: Simon Lister @Nylon Studios
Music Supervisor: Karl Richter @Level 2

Awards:
Gold: Film Craft at Cannes 2012
Silver: Best use of Music.
Bronze: Sound Design.
D&AD Yellow Pencil (MJZ) Production Design for Film Advertising

You Thought Bouncy Castles Were Cool? Check Out Life-Size Inflatable Stonehenge!

A life-size bouncy castle version of Stonehenge, entitled Sacrilege is touring the UK this summer as a part of the London 2012 Festival and the Mayor of London Surprises Program.

Little Owl Design's Altered Perspective - Plates As Canvas

The mixed media collection, Little owl Designs' Altered Perspectives is a mixed media collection that merges classic, traditional and Fauve fine art paintings with various types of Transferware dishes to result in unique art assemblages.