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‚An echoing question rises: does the world end in fire, or with a single song?

Elizabeth Gibson stars in ‘Elizabeth’, directed by visual artists Celia Arias and Manuel Mollá in their debut collaboration.

Gibson hauntingly weaves an otherworldly narrative of a lonely woman, participating in the daily rituals of a life lived alone. A fragmented pastiche of her lived experiences reverberates around the setting, seeping in and blending with the subject’s otherwise mundane reality.

Whilst there are grander themes at play here on the fragility of life, the central character in front of Mollá’s lens subverts that to focus on the individual, asking not who we are, but rather who we were and how we can become fixated on this idealisation of ourselves.

Ultimately, ‘Elizabeth’ may be read as a reflective interrogation into isolation and memory. Released at a poignant time when the world’s population is self isolating to protect itself from a dystopian threat, the film serves as a temporal response to the collective anxiety, loneliness & repetition of daily tasks currently being experienced by people of all ages around the globe. The strange beauty that permeates through Arias & Mollá’s film nods towards the optimistic glimmer that, through art, we may connect and thrive through these times and find comfort in our memories.‘

This fashion film features Spring/Summer 20 clothing collections
styled by Arias, from leading designers : Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Miu Miu, Mary Katrantzou, Simone Rocha, 16 Arlington, Elissa Poppy, Shushu Tong, Oceanus, De la Vali, T-Label and Malene Oddershede Bach.

Creative concept: Celia Arias @celia__arias
Co-directed by: Manuel Mollá @manuelmolla_ & Celia Arias
Cinematography & PostProduction : Manuel Mollá @manuelmolla_
Starring: Elizabeth Gibson @lisa_gibson_1044
Producer & Set design: Dagmar Bennett @dagmar_be
Fashion Styling: Celia Arias @celia__arias
Fashion Assistant: Bella Dupee @belladupee
Make up : Sunao Takahashi @suuna___
Hair: Hiroki Kokima @kojimahiroki
Graphic Design: Óscar M Soriano oscarmsoriano
Music & Sound Design: Christopher Schlechte-Bond @cschlechtebond