Lacoste

Commitment with Angelin Preljocaj’s young ballet

This is a short film I directed for Mixte Magazine curated by Lacoste featuring the young ballet of Angelin Preljocaj. Living with a dancer I know how much commitment, how much effort, how many sacrifices must be made on a daily basis to practice this art. I just have total admiration. I wanted to start by capturing the material of the choreographer then let the young dancers express themselves in total improvisation, I like the idea of starting from a uniform group and then discovering each personality through their movements. We shot at the 'pavillon noir', a brutalist black concrete studio with unique natural light, designed by Rudy Ricciotti — We oversaturated the 16mm footage to play with the colors of Lacoste's energetic fashion collection trying to achieve a beautiful type of abstraction.

director & photographer

choreographer
head of artistic project
dancers

music
created by
curated by

production company
producer
cinematographer
1st AC
2nd AC
photo assistant
gaffer
sound engineer
stylist
stylist assistant
hair stylist
hair stylist assistant
make-up artist
make-up assistant
creative director
publisher
project director
post-production
editor
mix
color grading
location
camera & lenses
film lab

Neels Castillon

Angelin Preljocaj
Guillaume Siard
Chiara D’Angelo
Giorgia Marchi
Chloé Fagot
Matteo Trutat
Edouard Goux
Valen Rivat-Fournier
Leonardo Santini

Nils Frahm “Fundamentals Values”
Mixte Magazine
Lacoste

Motion Palace
Louis Arnoux
Romain Alary
Emmanuelle Benayoun
Mathilde Nury
Ariane Longevial
Thibault Koralewski
Alexandre Le Mouroux
Lara Cviklinski
Clara Pilczer
Quentin Nguyen
Son Shabmixay
Axelle Jerina
Ophélie Mirabeau
Bertrand Bras
Patrick-Antoine Hanzo
Léa Ravera
Motion Palace
Sébastien Rouquet
Yann Rouquet
Jacky Lefresne @ Hervebays
Pavillon Noir
RVZ
Silverway Paris

photography for the magazine