Movie

Losing the Thread

20158m

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Director: Vivian Ostrovsky
Release date: 2015-05-01
Runtime: 8m
Language: French
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: On the Fly Productions

About Losing the Thread

Losing the Thread is a 2015 movie, directed by Vivian Ostrovsky, starring Gilles Deleuze and Coco Chanel. It has a runtime of 8 minutes. Below you can see where to watch Losing the Thread in United States — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

"Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze’s definition of style: 'creating a foreign language in one’s own language,' encouraged me to loosen the threads of this pursuit. To ponder how fashion and style are interwoven but also influenced by individual flare and whimsy, I stitched together Coco Chanel, Courrèges, Cole Porter and Kaiser Karl with vintage film moments. Then, as now, to grasp the whole cloth of this interface involves finding, but also Losing the Thread…"