DIVIDED CONNECTION DIRECTED BY STELLA STYLIANOU

Stella Stylianou is a dynamic freelance fashion and movement wear designer as well creative visionary from Cyprus based in Paris. She graduated from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hauge (KABK) in the Netherlands with a Fashion & Textile design BA. Her interest in designing garments that are meant to move stems from her dance education and love from the age of 5 to this very day. 

Divided Connections is a short film to support Stella Stylianou’s graduating designs from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. 

The driving force behind every aspect of this film is to reflect on the division Stella experienced growing up in a divided country, Cyprus. As the film unfolds we experience relentless depictions of separation, displacement, tension, push and pull whilst encompassing Stella’s evocative designs and a rich immersive soundscape. These sensations only seem to resolve as the performers gather perspective and find peace in connecting with each other.  

DOLLIE DIRECTED BY CYBELE MALINOWSKI

Cybele Malinowski has galvanised her place in the fashion, music and advertising industry with her bright, bold and unmistakable imagery. Dividing her time between Australia and LA for 15 years, her work is distinct for its striking connection between subject and viewer. Cybele’s obsession with the play of light, form and attention to detail are a reference back to her formal training in architecture. She has shot with more musicians and models than we can name in this short bio. Cybele is also a widely celebrated fashion photographer, and curates immaculate frames – both moving and still.  

Stylishly disturbing, satirical and chic, Dollie is a modern shopping channel malaise of a film that will scramble your gaze and make you rethink your childhood. 

Australian photographer and filmmaker Cybele Malinowski has spent the last 15 years making waves in the local and international fashion industry. But in her latest film and fashion shoot ‘Dollie’, her lens becomes a satirical one – taking aim at where it all began: her doll collection.