Highlander

A short documentary capturing the drama, the beauty & ghostly landscape of a fashion shoot organised by Alexandra Jasper.

Big, powerful, scary, and damn good with a sword: this describes the Kurgan, born from the Russian Steppes, and his opponent Connor Macleod, the Highlander, an immortal swordsman from the clan Macleod, fairly well.

A meeting of masculinity, violence and sexual tension, the ultimate male warriors; dressed to kill.

They are immortals, destined to live forever. They must duel down the ages until only one remains. Only decapitation by sword can release them from their age-long battle for an incredible prize - power beyond imagination...

A story as merciless and arrogant as Kim Choong-Wilkins designs, shot in the haunting surroundings of Dover's Western Heights Ex Military Base.

The visualisation of man's everlasting dream to live forever, are submitted to nature's law of death and renewal.

'I have always been fascinated by the forces of destruction and recreation, the duality of 'good versus evil' and the abyss in each of us. The depicted evil as the 'dark side of god' says photographer Alexandra Jasper.

What unites the photographer's vision with the luxurious harshness of Kim's design is their approval for the grotesque or as Choong-Wilkins states as his interest in 'the human condition, desire and the perverse'.

"From the dawn of time we came, moving silently down through the centuries. Living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last."

Credits:

Filmed and Edited: Ricardo Sleiman ‪http://www.sleiman.co.uk‬
Photographer / Art Direction: Alexandra Jasper ‪http://www.alexandrajasper.com‬
Designer: Kim Choong-Wilkins ‪http://www.ftape.com/rt/_designers/_k...‬
Make Up Artist: Suki Miles ‪http://www.sukimiles.com‬
Model - Highlander: Antoine Allen
Model - The Kurgan: John-Miguel Da Costa
Prosthetic Artist: John Schoonraad ‪http://www.lifecast.co.uk‬

Music Credits:
Sefiros - 'Pain' & 'Inbetween Decisions' from the album - Deconstruct http://sefiros.co.uk
Bird from the Abyss 'Intro / Beginning at Center of the Chaos / Azathoth and Flute' & 'Song to the Great Black Fox' from the album - I www.birdfromtheabyss.com
Dimaension X - 'A Final Plague Upon Mankind' from the album - Leprosia Doom http://dimaensionxblog.blogspot.com
Steven Erskine - Lionheart 'Intro' from the album - Alone www.archive.org/details/LionheartAlone

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• highlander
• fashion
• documentary
• dover
• western
• heights
• drop
• redoubt
• sleiman
• jasper
• choong-wilkins
• miles
• allen
• da
• costa
• schoonraad

[helenMacleod]

i like it..  thanks. lovly fasion.