<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\nHow did “Ephemeral Nature” come about?<\/strong><\/p>\nThe film started with a project for my creative media unit. They gave us a bunch of words to choose from, and I chose \u201cperformance\u201d. Once I had the word, I started to think about Luis Venegas, the founder of Candy magazine, which is the first transvestite magazine in the world. I really liked the fact that it was stylish and yet fun, and it encourages people to become the person they\u2019ve always wanted to be. I think that\u2019s what fashion should be about \u2013giving you freedom and the opportunity to be a better person.
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\nTell us more about the story.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe story is about a couple who live in a big house, are quite wealthy and who like to have fun with fashion in the bedroom. The wife becomes this kind of dominatrix, and he becomes a glamorous drag queen. <\/p>\n
One thing I particularly liked about the film was the sense of different textures \u2013 bubble wrap popping, shiny plastic. Was that an aspect of the fetishism that you wanted to bring out?<\/strong><\/p>\nI wanted the viewer to see what people think of when they are touching fashion. Many women buy a dress because of the way it feels. When they touch the jewellery they remember pleasant memories \u2013 which you see in the film, like crushing bubble wrap, a smoke, an orgasm on top of a washing machine. Then I contrasted these pleasures with burning plastic, because even plastic (like the jewellery) can be ephemeral. I read a very interesting book by Valery Steele called \u201cFetish\u201d, where I read that high heels are the symbol of a phallic woman who wants to have the power that the penis has given men throughout history. That doesn\u2019t make sense anymore because women are as powerful as men, if not more so in many cases. When the couple both dress in high heels, they become equal \u2013 they are genderless, and so they become free through fashion.
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\nHow did you go about casting for the film?<\/strong><\/p>\nI went to a few bars in Soho, and watched some live drag queen shows. I particularly liked one in Molly Moggs in Soho. That was where I met Jeff Kristian [who stars in the film]. Jeff is a professional actor and drag queen. He has a show twice a week at Molly Moggs, has done lots of theatre, and a short film that went to a film festival, where he played a cross-dressed Snow White on coke. It sounds very cool. And then I found Linda Landers. I stated that I wanted to cast people who were between 40 and 50 years old, just to challenge the fashion films that we\u2019ve seen before, which star 20 year old pretty models. I wanted to do something different. And she is such an artist.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/strong><\/p>\nI am writing a script, and when I met Rossy de Palma after the awards ceremony, I told her she would be the perfect actress for this role \u2013 who knows? As a personal project that would be a big achievement for me.<\/p>\n