The Crystal Farmers film is an extension of Harald Lunde Helgesen’s recent collection by the same name. The film is the second collaboration between Harald and filmmaker Jason Bradbury with an original score by Siri Schippers Skaar.
Please include the links:
www.jason-bradbury.co.uk
www.hlh.no
The Film
The film is set in a fictional world where subterranean farmers take great risks when entering deep caves in order to reach crystal fields where they harvest precious minerals to be traded in the nearby city. As one man is lost to the mines another has to step into the darkness. Son follows father and the cycle continues. We meet a young man just at the initiation into this life of hardship.
The Crystal Farmers was intended to take a more abstract approach to a fashion film; both Harald and Jason have no interest in fashion film that is an extension of a catwalk show or a moving photo-shoot. They work to the belief that film is at it’s most powerful when used to tell a narrative or create a mood, however abstractly that may be done.
Through a unique use of voices distorted and transposed until sometimes only a faint association to something human can be made, Siri has created a score which colour the gloom with feelings of sadness in a mother’s hopeful humming, the weight of thousands of tonnes of rock above echoing caves and tormented screams from the destinies lost in the depths.
The Collection
The Crystal Farmers collection was first shown during the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères in 2010, where Harald Lunde Helgesen won the Crystallized Swarovski Elements Award in 2009.
The crystals are the conceptual starting point as well as a feature in the clothes. Harald imagines a story of danger and endurance expressed in a rough but intricate collection that fuses functionality and tradition.
The crystal farmers subterranean work clothes show the influence of both local village culture and the distant metropolis. The inner layer is homemade high-tech—tight and elastic, suitable for swimming through flooded tunnels or squeezing through crevices. The middle layer was once bright urban denim brought back from the markets. But the original sheen has slowly faded away to the dull, worn-out texture of the everyday.
A handcrafted, coat completes the outfit. As they descend, the farmers leave the outer garments behind to collect on the way back. But sometimes one never returns. If his coat is found it becomes an heirloom.
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HLH: Crystal Farmers Press Release
Intro
The Crystal Farmers film is an extension of Harald Lunde Helgesen’s recent collection by the same name. The film is the second collaboration between Harald and filmmaker Jason Bradbury with an original score by Siri Schippers Skaar.
Please include the links:
www.jason-bradbury.co.uk
www.hlh.no
The Film
The film is set in a fictional world where subterranean farmers take great risks when entering deep caves in order to reach crystal fields where they harvest precious minerals to be traded in the nearby city. As one man is lost to the mines another has to step into the darkness. Son follows father and the cycle continues. We meet a young man just at the initiation into this life of hardship.
The Crystal Farmers was intended to take a more abstract approach to a fashion film; both Harald and Jason have no interest in fashion film that is an extension of a catwalk show or a moving photo-shoot. They work to the belief that film is at it’s most powerful when used to tell a narrative or create a mood, however abstractly that may be done.
Through a unique use of voices distorted and transposed until sometimes only a faint association to something human can be made, Siri has created a score which colour the gloom with feelings of sadness in a mother’s hopeful humming, the weight of thousands of tonnes of rock above echoing caves and tormented screams from the destinies lost in the depths.
The Collection
The Crystal Farmers collection was first shown during the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères in 2010, where Harald Lunde Helgesen won the Crystallized Swarovski Elements Award in 2009.
The crystals are the conceptual starting point as well as a feature in the clothes. Harald imagines a story of danger and endurance expressed in a rough but intricate collection that fuses functionality and tradition.
The crystal farmers subterranean work clothes show the influence of both local village culture and the distant metropolis. The inner layer is homemade high-tech—tight and elastic, suitable for swimming through flooded tunnels or squeezing through crevices. The middle layer was once bright urban denim brought back from the markets. But the original sheen has slowly faded away to the dull, worn-out texture of the everyday.
A handcrafted, coat completes the outfit. As they descend, the farmers leave the outer garments behind to collect on the way back. But sometimes one never returns. If his coat is found it becomes an heirloom.
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