Film
Morphē
2012 · 3m · Science Fiction
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Overview
Morphē is a short film conceived by multidisciplinary artist Lucy McRae in collaboration with Australian skincare brand Aesop. It playfully presages a new juncture for science and beauty, transforming an old Amsterdam church into a meticulously ordered space that references Aesop’s own laboratory. Here, a painstaking Scientist employs an assortment of gels, liquids, and weird contraptions to minister arcane beauty treatments to a sleeping Muse. The skin and hair play key roles for the female specimen fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of a new kind of super-sensory beauty treatment. McRae describes her film inspired chiefly by nineteenth-century scientist and philosopher Hermann von Helmholtz, and his revolutionary research on human perception: ‘Everything’, wrote Helmholtz, ‘is an event on the skin’. ‘I wanted to suggest a journey inside a world beyond skin care, one that involves farther realms of perception within the sensory landscape of the human body.'
Cast
Crew
- Lucy McRaeDirector
- Holly KruegerProducer
- Hessel WaalewijnDirector of Photography
- Ine van den ElsenEditor
- Sanne van WerschCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- September 12, 2012
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 3m
- Genres
- Science Fiction
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