When Dutch fashion model Rianne Van Rompaey was looking to explore the fissure between her personal and professional lives through film, a mutual friend matched her sensibilities with those of director David Findlay, and the pair came together to make Faces. In this deeply collaborative short Findlay, a filmmaker who’s no stranger to Dn’s pages, takes us on an unsettling, fractured trek through Van Rompaey’s disconcertingly tangible subconscious, housed within an elegantly sumptuous fashion infused 8 minute short. We see Van Rompaey, who plays herself, fight against a domineering mother, the frenetic energy of a crew waiting for their tardy star, demands from a fraught friendship and Findlay’s assured filmmaking absorbs us into each and every second. Faces’ dreamlike quality deftly submerges its audience within the naked truth of Van Rompaey’s feelings and battles between the personas she, and by extension, all of us have to put out to the world.
- 11/6/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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