Celluloid Dress
Celluloid Dress plays with the relationship between the technologies of sewing and 16mm celluloid filmmaking. Inspired in part by Italian Futurism and Vincenzo Fani's "Futurist Manifesto of Women's Fashion" (1920), the wearable dress is made from over 250 feet of exposed 16mm film and nylon mesh. The dress is worn during a performance during which a projector is connected to a sewing machine through a film loop, and the strip of film is sewn until it is destroyed.