Model

Beauty is a product here. At a modelling agency, appearance is a commodity, and every movement, glance and outfit becomes part of a carefully constructed commercial image. Castings, photo shoots, client meetings and commercial shoots reveal an industry in which people are constantly evaluated, groomed and coached to meet others’ expectations. The film captures the commercial, image-obsessed America of the late 1970s and the distinctive energy of New York at the time. It also looks behind the fashion world’s glittering façade, where Andy Warhol, one of the era’s most influential figures in pop art, advertising and mass culture, makes an unexpected appearance.

Frederick Wiseman – One of the most important and influential documentary filmmakers,he has made more than 45 films about institutions, districts, and small towns. The principles of his filmmaking: no filmed interviews, no explanatory commentary, no additional music, and a montage that does not structure what is shown on the basis of an otherwise common chronological narration, but orders individual sequences according to rhetorical arguments.