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In this special project for Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2024 fashion show, artist Cécile B. Evans offers us a surreal story about one of the last human translators and a memory that escapes her. RECEPTION! stars acclaimed actress Guslagie Malanda as a woman named Reception who is one of the last human translators on Earth. In the wake of a storage crisis that has seen the erasure of digital memory from personal devices, Reception works in a former parliament hemicycle that has been repurposed as a data center. She receives a transmission of a woman’s intimate memory. The woman speaks in Irish Gaelic and Reception interprets her experience into French, faithfully dictating to a machine that transcribes it to history in English. In this vigorous process of receiving and transitioning the woman’s memory, Reception’s own memory escapes her and goes rogue in the showspace. In a choreographed screen ballet, the memory moves onto Reception’s personal storage devices, enforcing the link between what we hold in our bodies and what is kept in the objects we carry with us. Full Credits: Director: Cécile B Evans Production: @ninaangeleri @atlantisfilmvideo, 4 Friends Film Production manager: Johan Reddersen Studio Manager: Justine Durand De Sanctis Cast: Reception: Guslagie Malanda Irish Gaellic Voice: Alice L. Rekab Machine Voice: Cécile B. Evans Director of Photography: @jojolamdop 1st AD: Michael Moore 1st AC: Tommy Hardt 2nd Ac: Lea Petitjean VTR: Cindy Santos Gaffer: Gilbert Degrand Key Grip: Pescal Charlier Sound: Salomé Renaud Production Design: Ylan Lucas Costumes: Miu Miu HMU: Aaliyah Oke Edit: Robert Fox, Cécile B. Evans VFX: IncWorks Studio, Johan Reddersen Music: Asma Maroof & Daniel Pineda, Christelle Oyiri, Joseph Schiano Di Lombo Vocalist: Yeshe Sound Design and musical arrangement: Joe Namy Post production: Hi Production; Max Brun, Eleonora Ferrari Colour: @guillaume_chanaud at @filmsduperiscope Scenography: OMA With a very special thank you to Miuccia Prada. #MiuMiu #MiuMiuFW24
