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Met Gala Exhibit Examines American Fashion, Frame by Frame

Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 1:59 am
by claireokc
NEW YORK—Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the costumes have been chosen for you. “Create a one-frame movie in a period room? A great opportunity and an intriguing challenge,” the director writes in a statement next to his creation, a mysterious mix of characters, emotions, and fashion in the museum’s striking Frank Lloyd Wright Room. ...

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