AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE
DIRECTOR: Jason Last
Jason Last is a New York based filmmaker and artist whose work bridges the worlds of art, fashion, and film. For Last, fashion film is broader than something simply being linked to the fashion industry. It is the use of fashion imagery, clothing, models, pop culture, etc, that can take on a cinematic form. He is very open to the blurring of lines between the labels and genres that exist in fashion, film, and art. Auguries of Innocence is a poem by William Blake, recited by model Yuri Pleskun. Blake’s poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption. The young man’s stare and voice penetrate, moving in and out of the darkness. An augury is a sign or omen.