Gabriel Gettman, Fashion & Music Film Director, London
04/04/2012His music and fashion films have been presented during London Fashion Week and have been featured by in ‘Purple’ and Rankin’s On|Off. Gabriels films have also been screened at world’s top film festivals and in several galleries and clubs.
Creative Mapping met with Gabriel, and talked about his unique style of directing, his creative process and how he develops his ideas. Our picture gallery shows stunning imagery from his fashion films ‘Circus’ and ‘Death’, ‘Viktoria Modesta’, and ‘Two Weeks’, as well as ‘Caecilia’ , his fiction film, which will be released late throughout 2012.
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Christopher James Toby Summerskill Paul Phung Akif Hakan Celebi Creative Mapping © Copyright. All rights reserved.
“I’M QUITE UNUSUAL AS A FILMMAKER AS I DON’T WORK WITH STORYBOARDS PARTICULARLY. SOMETIMES I’LL PUT TOGETHER A KIND OF COLLAGE OF VISUAL MATERIAL BUT LARGELY I WORK IN MY HEAD TO TRY AND SEE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WHAT THE FINAL PRODUCT WILL BE”
Where do you live and what & where did you study?What do you do?
How did you become a professional creative?
Tell us about your work environment? What are your preferred working programs/tools/materials?
Where do you live and what & where did you study?
I live in London, in a leafy area called Belsize Park. I studied BA Directing at Central Saint Martins, and graduated last year with first-class honours.
What do you do?
I direct films. I am largely focused on fashion film, which I think is an exciting new medium, but also make short films.
One day I hope to be in a position to move into features.
How did you become a professional creative?
I started making fashion films professionally during my second year at St Martins. The first to be shown at LFW was a paint-splattered black and white film for awesome East-London brand Bitching&Junkfood, which is really popular right now with Rihanna and Jessie J.
So many of my friends are designers or stylists, it was somewhat inevitable I would get drawn in to fashion, and, on my first project, I found that I really loved the collaborative, visual and lawless nature of this new genre. I still largely work with my friends and acquaintances now, though I will do more marketing as my body of work grows.
Tell us about your work environment? What are your preferred working programs/tools/materials?
I would love to work more with cut-outs and sketchbooks, but currently nearly every stage of my process takes place on a computer, usually because I’m pushed for time! I edit in a Final Cut suite, always try to shoot on RED, and grade in Da Vinci when I can. In April, I plan to move my work into a huge new studio near Old Street, which I hope will be very freeing creatively.
Music-wise, I tend to make a different playlist to see me through each project I work on ‘ it helps keep me in a specific frame of mind!