Cassia By Zaiba Jabbar
Regular blog readers and F156Film lovers will already know the work of Zaiba Jabbar. For anyone who doesn’t, let Zaiba introduce Cassia. She is an isolated, enchanting heroine with a beauty and aura that is destructive and eyes that draw mortals in like moths to an eyelash framed flame. She sits upon her rooftop waiting and searching for what she knows is ‘out there’ on moonlit nights that are filled with couture urban gangs bedecked in sequins and glitter.
To an uneasy soundtrack by The Vile Bodies, the story plays out with all the ingredients that we have come to know and love Zaiba Jabbar for. With ultimate suspense, acidic beauty and a way with lighting that is comparable to no other filmmaker in her genre, ‘Cassia’ is undeniably a work that is, in it’s predatory nature, utterly addictive.
With Zaiba’s ever-growing portfolio of diverse, striking fashion films including her award winning “1-minute Light Series” in collaboration with Vogue Italia and A Shaded View of Fashion Film Festival, we’re eagerly awaiting her coming projects with Charlie Le Mindu and William Richard Green for SS’11.
So, for now I watch Cassia with equal measures of fright and wonder, and shuffle with a heightened sense of caution as I cross the city at night. I’m certainly going to take note from Cassia by drawing a pair of trapping eyes onto my palms so that I can eliminate my enemies with a quick flash of wide, spreading fingers like deadly eyelashes and run back to the safety of my own rooftop.
Video courtesy of Zaiba Jabbar
Posted by Julia Kasper
