Kenzo’s “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity” is a new concept surrealist short film following its popular, highly awarded Spike Jonze film. Via Adweek:
On the heels of winning a Grand Prix at Cannes this summer for the “My Mutant Brain” film, directed by Spike Jonze, Kenzo is back with another stunning piece of work. This time around, the brand tapped Orange is the New Black actress Natasha Lyonne to direct a nearly 15-minute film for the brand’s new fall-winter 2017 collection.
The film, titled “Cabiria, Charity, Chastity,” marks Lyonne’s directorial debut and it does not disappoint. Lyonne wrangled a star-studded cast for her film including Maya Rudolph, who plays Chastity, a woman on a journey to discover her true self as she grapples with her past. She truly shines in the film, even creating her own language (“a version of gibberish,” according to Lyonne) which she delivers with perfect ease throughout the story.
The full cast includes Fred Armisen, Greta Lee, James Ransone, Matt Lucas, Macaulay Culkin, Waris Ahluwalia and Leslie Odom Jr. Lyonne also makes an appearance.
This marks Kenzo’s fifth film under the brand’s creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon. Each of the five films have had different directors, including Carrie Brownstein and Khalil Joseph. Lyonne starred in the film directed by Brownstein, which debuted this time last year.
“We don’t like to call them fashion films,” Lim said. “I think there is a pretty free way that people will interpret the story and then take it. The clothes are almost secondary in many ways because it needs to fit with the characters.”