A new edition of the Moritz Feed Dog is back. The contest dedicated to documentary film about fashion that takes place every year in Barcelona and this time, recovers its usual date welcoming spring with a new assortment of novelties in its programming. This festival is special for several reasons. Firstly, because it explores the universe of fashion in all its facets, giving a transversal vision of the sector: the positive values that it promotes, such as beauty, talent, identity or fun, among others, with those who are less friendly than they obscure the fashion industry and question its impact. This year the critical look focuses on essential values such as diversity, honesty, sustainability and animal abuse. Second, the Moritz Feed Dog specializes in documentary, a narrative genre that allows genuine stories to be told based on real events and that appeal directly to the viewer, expanding their mind towards a voracious industry that can be talented and creative, but also ambitious, irresponsible and cruel. The contradictions of fashion that are still a mirror of our society. For all this, the festival constitutes an idyllic environment where views are expanded, opinions are generated and debate around the fashion business is encouraged.
In this seventh edition that will take place from 22nd – 27th March at the Aribau cinemas in Barcelona, the Moritz Feed Dog has prepared a particularly careful programming: premieres, classic documentaries and films loaded with content with genuine stories. Also add that in the digital sphere, the fashion documentary film festival has partnered with CaixaForum +, the streaming platform of culture and science of the La Caixa Foundation that will issue various films free of charge in April, after Easter.
A memory to the designers who are no longer here
The seventh edition of the Moritz Feed Dog Barcelona kicks off with a retrospective of one of the greats: Azzedine Alaïa (1935-2017). The Franco-Tunisian couturier was known as the sculptor of fashion because he was capable of modeling human figures, using all kinds of fabrics. Alaïa was an outsider who broke the system with the help of his talent, his group of unconditional supporters and his devoted gaze towards women. Paris loved him, fashion loved him and women continue to dress him. Clients as diverse as Greta Garbo and Grace Jones, Kim Kardashian and Michelle Obama continue to be loyal fans of Alaïa . This documentary offers an exciting portrait of the life of the couturier. An outstanding piece by director Olivier Nicklaus to whom the festival pays tribute by exhibiting a selection of his most representative works: “ AntiFashion ”, “ Apocalypse Mode ” and “ Go Global”.
The Moritz Feed Dog commemorates the talent and unique personality of Vivienne Westwood , the queen of punk, with two titles that span her career as a designer and activist from its beginnings to her most recent work. The festival also recovers the figure of Gianni Versace offering a new vision of his career. This time, it is the male models who walked the runway for the firm in the eighties, who recall their professional and personal relationship with the designer. Finally, a documentary made and produced in Barcelona stands out, which rescues the multidisciplinary creativity of Toni Miró , one of the key designers in the history of contemporary Spanish fashion. Through his television interventions, the personality of this enigmatic Catalan talent is portrayed who walked the international catwalks in Paris and Milan, and was one of the first couturiers to incorporate anonymous people of all ages into his shows. Rigor, neatness and ease were the hallmarks of his brand, created in 1976.
The prism of fashion
Although everything revolves around the fashion industry, you don’t have to be an expert in the field to view the documentaries proposed by the Moritz Feed festival Dog. In its programming, suitable for all audiences, audiovisual pieces that offer a multidisciplinary vision through more personal perspectives and differentiated themes also stand out. From the transformation of men’s fashion and its relationship with men in “ All Man: The International Male Story ”, to an intimate piece that portrays the beauty universe of photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri in “ L’Uomo e la Belleza”, or a work has also been programmed that transmits the day-to-day life of the fauna that surrounds the sector, either in a backstage as immortalized by “Fashion Babylon ” or the not so idyllic life of an influencer teenager in “ Girl gang ”.
The other side of the industry
Fashion has its own shadows and the Moritz Feed festival Dog reveals them shamelessly. “Fashion Reimagined ” represents a manifesto on the sector’s impact on the environment through a small cult London firm: Mother of Pearl. In “ Wings are not for sale” the object of criticism is the fast fashion from the point of view of sociologists, activists and workers from the industry itself. The hottest topics are also reflected in “ Apocalypse Mode ” by Olivier Nicklaus , but this time, the subjects of these opinions are different generations of designers such as Agnès B, Marine Serre, Karl Lagerfeld or Alessandro Michele. Lastly, “ Slay ” brings to the table a thorny issue: animal abuse in a denunciation documentary that shows raw stories of abuse around the world. This audiovisual piece, which shows the dust under the rug, stirs consciences to demand a greater commitment from brands to animal welfare.
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