Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2024 Fashion Show | Director's Cut by Cécile B. Evans

In this special project for Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2024 fashion show, artist Cécile B. Evans offers us a surreal story about one of the last human translators and a memory that escapes her.

RECEPTION! stars acclaimed actress Guslagie Malanda as a woman named Reception who is one of the last human translators on Earth. In the wake of a storage crisis that has seen the erasure of digital memory from personal devices, Reception works in a former parliament hemicycle that has been repurposed as a data center. She receives a transmission of a woman’s intimate memory. The woman speaks in Irish Gaelic and Reception interprets her experience into French, faithfully dictating to a machine that transcribes it to history in English. In this vigorous process of receiving and transitioning the woman’s memory, Reception’s own memory escapes her and goes rogue in the showspace. In a choreographed screen ballet, the memory moves onto Reception’s personal storage devices, enforcing the link between what we hold in our bodies and what is kept in the objects we carry with us.

Full Credits:
Director: Cécile B Evans
Production: @ninaangeleri @atlantisfilmvideo, 4 Friends Film
Production manager: Johan Reddersen
Studio Manager: Justine Durand De Sanctis

Cast:
Reception: Guslagie Malanda
Irish Gaellic Voice: Alice L. Rekab
Machine Voice: Cécile B. Evans

Director of Photography: @jojolamdop
1st AD: Michael Moore
1st AC: Tommy Hardt
2nd Ac: Lea Petitjean
VTR: Cindy Santos

Gaffer: Gilbert Degrand
Key Grip: Pescal Charlier

Sound: Salomé Renaud
Production Design: Ylan Lucas
Costumes: Miu Miu
HMU: Aaliyah Oke

Edit: Robert Fox, Cécile B. Evans
VFX: IncWorks Studio, Johan Reddersen
Music: Asma Maroof & Daniel Pineda, Christelle Oyiri, Joseph Schiano Di Lombo
Vocalist: Yeshe
Sound Design and musical arrangement: Joe Namy
Post production: Hi Production; Max Brun, Eleonora Ferrari

Colour: @guillaume_chanaud at @filmsduperiscope

Scenography: OMA

With a very special thank you to Miuccia Prada.

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