You really don’t know what to expect when you find out that filmmaker Gus Van Sant is working on a new project. Is it a new feature film? A music video? An acting appearance? Well, if you had “directing a series of short films for Gucci featuring major pop acts like Harry Styles and Billie Eilish” then you’re the winner and you can come collect your prize!
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According to Variety, Gucci is set to release “Ouverture of Something that Never Ended” as a seven-part short film series that will premiere at the end of this month. The shorts will be co-directed by Gus Van Sant and creative director Alessandro Michele. And to make things even more interesting, the shorts will feature none other than two of the biggest pop stars working today, Harry Styles and Billie Eilish.
Though Styles and Eilish are the big names associated with the project, the actual film series is led by actor Silvia Calderoni. The shorts are shot in Rome and will feature Caldroni as she encounters people such as Styles and Eilish, as well as a cast that includes Paul B. Preciado, Achille Bonito Oliva, Darius Khonsary, Lu Han, Jeremy O. Harris, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Arlo Parks, Sasha Waltz, and Florence Welch.
“The presentation of the new collection is a joyful and irregular new tale, no longer constrained by the old notion of seasonality, closer to [Michele’s] expressive call and told by blending rules and genres, feeding on new spaces, linguistic codes and communication platforms,” Gucci said in a statement.
As mentioned, “Ouverture of Something that Never Ended” is set to premiere later this month as part of this year’s GucciFest. The event will be broadcast on YouTube Fashion, Weibo, Gucci’s YouTube channel and GucciFest.com. The fest includes other films from no fewer than 15 designers from around the world. GucciFest is set to begin on November 16 and run until November 22.
Gucci teased the Van Sant/Michele collaboration last month with a cryptic post on Instagram: