Léo Siboni & Suzie Q. [Film]

Pursuit by Léo & SuzieQ.

The above video is two years old. The duo has a brand new one now to watch, on Vogue Italia.

For their NUPTIALIS project, Greek jewelry designer Maria Mastori and Cypriot fashion designer Filep Motwary reached out to the Paris-based, up and coming duo Suzie Q and Leo Siboni, in order to make a fashion-film collaboration.

In this film, tinged with surrealism, the garment becomes the answer to an intrigue, a mystery, but also a  character in itself — a fantastic object, in the cinematic sense of the word.

Léo & Suzie also have an interview worth reading where they discuss how they met and all their film, including also the below one called Black Light:

Antoine Asseraf: When I came to you to make a film for Light Series in Milano, I would have never imagined something as strong as BLACK LIGHT… what happened between the 2 films ?

Well PURSUIT allowed to be discovered by a production company, Moonwalk films, which was a real help. They helped us making BLACK LIGHT – casting, post production, etc. They also helped us get a crane for 2 days of shooting. It’s important to have a producer that believes in what you do and is willing to help.

What was the inspiration for BLACK LIGHT ? It reminded me of DOGVILLE, but then there’s this light installation at the end…

DOGVILLE inspired us for the set.
The rails are inspired by Carlos Reygadas’ fim JAPAN.

The light installation however… We were both assitants to different photographers for several years, so I think it’s an accumulation of different things. Black lighting was mostly a way of showing the clothes in a different way. Then we had to find how to go from black light to normal light, so we were tempted to make the link with lightning, as if there was a storm.

The Stimuleye: a screen within a screen – SUZIE Q & LEO SIBONI.