For Spring 2017, Études has invited artist Colin Snapp to

conceptualize and produce a short film to announce the

arrival of their latest collection.

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The brand’s tenth collection bases itself around the desire

to retreat into the undefined landscape, allowing time for

exploration, and discovering the place where the urban and rural coexist peacefully: where the sidewalk meets the grass.

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Similar parallels can be observed in Snapp’s work. Often

addressing the notion of tourism and the documentation of

traveling as act, Colin manipulates the viewer’s perspective

through a thoughtful conceptual process. Using glass lens

filters and a practice known as re-photography, Snapp (who has previously collaborated on two publications with Études Books) creates a series of dualistic imagery that is both simultaneously static and in motion.

 

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In his evocative short film, shot on location in Los Angeles

and featuring an original soundtrack by Jean Benoît Dunckel (member of the French duo Air) the artist creates a half-waking world of uncertainties and sharp contrasts. Snapp’s piece serves to echo the Spring collection’s central ethos of exploration and the notion of defining a “new geography.”

 

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Colin Snapp (b. 1982 Lopez Island WA, USA) Lives and works between Berlin and New York. Filmed January 2017 in Los Angeles, California