artist and filmmaker baillie walsh has created this short 3d film and shoot with model kate moss for another magazine. the work continues moss and walsh’s journey into experimental, multi-dimensional image-making, first seen in their legendary holographic film for alexander mcQueen’s autumn/winter 2006 show. with a performance that recalls the fantastical cinema of ray harryhausen, james bidgood and kenneth anger, km3d-1 places at its centre one of the most iconic female figures of the modern age. suspended in time and space, kate is caught inexorably in the parallax gap; a butterfly in a spider’s web. captured at 1,000 frames per second – a speed so slow that movement is almost imperceptible – the beauty of kate’s face appears frozen, transforming her into an impenetrable deity. she is a figure of contemporary fantasy, shattering her own self-image. made with state-of-the-art phantom cameras, specially built for the project to create extreme slow motion and a dramatic 3d effect, km3d-1 reflects another magazine’s raison d’etre: to champion creatives pushing the limits of what seems possible.
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