‘Creatives to Watch’ - Introducing Fashion Photographer and Director Marie SCHULLER c/o MARKENFILM on GoSee
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Marie Schuller c/o MARKENFILM is a Barcelona-based film director and photographer specializing in fashion, beauty and advertising content. Her photography work has been featured on the covers of Numero, L’Officiel and Elle, among others. Marie was raised in Germany and moved to England in 2004 where she studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School before completing her MA in photography at the University of the Arts London. Staying in London, Marie spent six years as head of fashion at Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio, collaborating as an editor on all of Nick Knight’s own films and overseeing the pioneering fashion film output of SHOWstudio.com. Once she left SHOWstudio, Marie started exploring her own practice and quickly found her own style.
“It took years, and close to 100 films, to gain a conceptual understanding of what I actually like and believe in, and how I am able to communicate this with the medium of film. Back in those days, I had a technique I called ‘accidental editing’, where I took a clip and literally chopped it up by random. I’d then rearrange the bits to create a choppy edit that would jump back and forth and inject dynamic and energy into the edit. When I started thinking more intensely about the structure and cinematic flow of my own films, I had to seriously adjust my approach to editing. I made a rule for myself to never cut unless the cut was needed. How does this film actually benefit from this cut? Do I need to cut, or am I only doing it to hide the fact that my material doesn't have the energy or doesn’t hold the interest of its audience without a choppy edit?” Marie Schuller, photographer and director.
Marie continues : “This new approach led to a chain of pretty boring films at first, but then forced me to become a better director and seriously address my sense of storytelling. I moved away from heavy post production and became much more raw and intimate in my work. I started working with narrative and dialogue and made use of the elements that make film unique and differ from photography. I questioned every decision I took as a director: Is this idea original? Do my casting choices represent the world as I see it? Does this make sense? What am I trying to say? Most of what I am trying to do still fails, but with every film I do continue to become a better director.”
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