Film | Meghan Collison Stars in Jason Last's 'Scalpel/Stradivarius' with Violinist Sarah Neufeld

The video by Jason Last and Jaime Rubiano starring Arcade Fire violinist, with Meghan Collison won the TheCorner Prize presented at ASVOFF, A Shaded View On Fashion Film, held in October at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

The video, produced by Vogue.it in two phases, in New York and Paris, carrying out an experimentation that starts from music and culminatesd with fashion: details of couture outfits, fabric used as elements for the set, hair styling as metamorphosis. To go back reflecting on music. And precisely on the notes of Sarah Neufeld, the well-known Canadian violinist and member of band Arcade Fire & The Bell Orchestre who besides playing the music, composed expressly for the film, also appears in the short film playing a graphite violin. Also Canadian is the other female lead in Scalpel/Stradivarius, model Meghan Collison, who has graced the cover of Vogue Italia twice (October 2007 and June 2009).

NOWNESS | A Week of Culinary Seductions from 'Profana: The Ecstasy of Chocolate' to Gladiator Grape Eating

NOWNESS is running a gastronomy feast this week, making a visual feast of culinary extravaganzas by artists, chefs, actors and numerous creatives. The contrast between’s Monday’s Margot Henderson: Burning Bush and Tuesday’s Takeru Kobayashi: Hunger got us thinking about gender and food. Gender and governing. Gender and competition. Winner take all — even Nathans hot dogs. But I digress! Margot Henderson may not look like a seductress, but her film sizzles.

By contrast, eating grapes becomes the work of a gladiator!

Yesterday NOWNESS debuted ‘Profana: The Ecstasy of Chocolate’ , a bobbing heads panoply of sexy models exploring the sensuality and extravagance of cocoa. (Note, luscious lips only smack on NOWNESS). Siblings Santiago and Mauricio Sierra created the sexy indulgences “with the help of fashion’s freshest faces, captured in furtive moments of ecstasy. Yet our affair with the bittersweet delicacy isn’t all that mysterious in light of its chemical powers of seduction: the cocoa bean contains organically stimulating substances, such as the euphoric anandamide, the natural aphrodisiac arginine, and tryptophan, a proven antidepressant.”

Film | NYC Dark on Vimeo by Jared Levy

NYC Dark from Already Alive on Vimeo.

Seeing lower Manhattan without power was a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.

See all of Jared’s photos here: jaredlevy.me/gallery/hurricane-sandy-lower-manhattan/

Timelapse / Music: Michael Marantz michaelmarantz.com
Stills / Voice: Jared Levy jaredlevy.me
Creative Direction: Jason Oppliger jasonoppliger.com

Produced by Already Alive alreadyalive.com

Original Music by Michael Marantz: soundcloud.com/michaelmarantz/nyc-dark

Special Thanks:
Alexandra Setoodeh
Rachel Tierney
Anne Sage