
Morphē
2012 • Directed by
Lucy McRae
Science Fiction
Morphē is a short film conceived by multidisciplinary artist Lucy McRae in collaboration with Australian skincare brand Aesop. It playfully presages a new juncture for science and beauty, transforming an old Amsterdam church into a meticulously ordered space that references Aesop’s own laboratory. Here, a painstaking Scientist employs an assortment of gels, liquids, and weird contraptions to minister arcane beauty treatments to a sleeping Muse. The skin and hair play key roles for the female specimen fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of a new kind of super-sensory beauty treatment. McRae describes her film inspired chiefly by nineteenth-century scientist and philosopher Hermann von Helmholtz, and his revolutionary research on human perception: ‘Everything’, wrote Helmholtz, ‘is an event on the skin’. ‘I wanted to suggest a journey inside a world beyond skin care, one that involves farther realms of perception within the sensory landscape of the human body.'
Release Date
9/12/2012
Rating
0.0/10
Cast
Crew
Lucy McRae
Director
Holly Krueger
Producer
Barnaby Monk
Production Design
Maaike Fransen
Assistant Art Director
Hessel Waalewijn
Director of Photography
Ine van den Elsen
Editor
Eduardo Noya Schreus
Music
Laetitia Migliore
First Assistant Art Direction
Janneke Verhoeven
Costume Designer
Holger Gons
Production Assistant