• Muiopotmos
  • Muiopotmos
  • Muiopotmos

EDITORIAL: Berenice Ammann’s experimental hair approach inspires the whole team to find new ways of incorporating hair into this visualisation of Edmund Spenser’s 1591 poem Muiopotmos or The Fate Of The Butterflie

dress MARISA SCHNEIDER
dress MARISA SCHNEIDER
dress MARISA SCHNEIDER

Phase I

Drawn into Arms, and proof of mortal Fight,
Through proud Ambition, and heart-swelling Hate;
Whilst neither could the other’s greater Might
And ‘sdainful Scorn endure that from small Jar
Their Wraths at length broke into open War

dress MARISA SCHNEIDER
dress MARISA SCHNEIDER

Phase II

The Root whereof and tragical Effect,
Vouchsafe, O thou the mournful’st Muse of Nine,
That wont’st the tragick Stage for to direct,
In funeral Complaints and wailful Tine,
Reveal to me, and all the Means detect

top and tights FALKE (customised); body MARISA SCHNEIDER
top and tights FALKE (customised); body MARISA SCHNEIDER

Of all the Race of silver-winged Flies
Which do possess the Empire of the Air,
Betwixt the centred Earth, and azure Skies,
Was none more favorable, nor more fair,
Whilst Heaven did favour his Felicities,
Than Clarion, the eldest Son and Heir
Of Muscarol, and in his Father’s sight
Of all alive did seem the fairest Wight

top and tights FALKE (customised); body MARISA SCHNEIDER

Phase III

With fruitful Hope his aged Breast he fed
Of future Good, which his young toward Years

dress HELENA STÖLTING; bra MARISA SCHNEIDER
dress HELENA STÖLTING
top and tights FALKE (customised); body MARISA SCHNEIDER
earrings HELENA STÖLTING

Phase IV

The fresh young Fly, in whom the kindly Fire
Of lustful Youth began to kindle fast,
Did much disdain to subject his Desire
To loathsom Sloth, or Hours in ease to waste;
But joy’d to range abroad in fresh Attire,
Through the wide Compass of the airy Coast,
And with unwearied Wings each part t’ inquire
Of the wide Rule of his renowned Sire

earrings HELENA STÖLTING
earrings HELENA STÖLTING

Up to the Clouds, and thence with Pineons light
To mount aloft unto the crystal Sky,
To view the Workmanship of Heaven’s Hight:
Whence down descending, he along would fly
Upon the streaming Rivers, Sport to find;
And oft would dare to tempt the troublous Wind

earrings HELENA STÖLTING
earrings HELENA STÖLTING
top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings and elastic body HELENA STÖLTING; tights FALKE

Phase V

So on a Summers-day, when Season mild
With gentle Calm the World hath quieted,
And high in Heaven Hyperion’s fiery Child
Ascending, did his Beams abroad disspred

top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings HELENA STÖLTING
top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings HELENA STÖLTING
top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings HELENA STÖLTING
top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings HELENA STÖLTING
top PEP TRAPIELLO; earrings and elastic body HELENA STÖLTING; tights FALKE

Phase VI

Therein two deadly Weapons fixt he bore,
Strongly outlaunced towards either side,
Like two sharp Spears, his Enemies to gore.
Like as a warlike Brigandine applide
To fight, lays forth her threatful Pikes afore

top and dress HELENA STÖLTING
top and dress HELENA STÖLTING; shoes RAKI
top and dress HELENA STÖLTING; shoes RAKI
top and dress HELENA STÖLTING; shoes RAKI

Not any Damsel, which her vaunteth most
In skilful knitting of soft silken Twine;
Nor any Weaver, which his Work doth boast,
In Diaper, in Damask, or in Lyne;
Nor any skill’d in Workmanship emboss’d;
Nor any skill’d in Loups of Fingring fine;
Might in their diverse Cunning ever dare
With this so curious Net-work to compare.

top and dress HELENA STÖLTING; shoes RAKI
top and tights FALKE (customised); body MARISA SCHNEIDER

Digital + Analogue Photography: Tomás Eyzaguirre
Hair + Makeup: Berenice Ammann
Hair + Makeup Assistant: Diego Fraile
Styling: Raki Fernandez
Film: Agustin Farias
Set Design: Miren Oller
Set Assistant: Lea Rollo
Sound Design: Mosche
Models: Ann at A Management, Lev
Poem: Edmund Spenser Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie

  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAIR
  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAIR
  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAIR
  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAIR
  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAIR