The Legend of Lady White Snake
A Tribute to the Spirit of Alexander McQueen
"A magical little film...
Guinness shines in this epic tale of love, life and loss"
-- Cator Sparks, Huffington Post
"A highly conceptualized interpretation...
Guinness ignites a Gothic Chinese legend."
-- Arne Eggers, Tatler Hong Kong
Awards and Museums
Won Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, May 2015;
Won Best Film, Best Director and Best Design at the London Fashion Film Festival, September 2015;
Won Best of Festival at Princeton Film Festival, April 2015;
Won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Fashion and the Red Camera Award at the La Jolla Fashion Film Festival at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Screened at The Lincoln Center NY, The Museum of the Fashion Institute NY, The Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Australian Center for the Moving Image, the Milan Fashion Film Festival and the Kolkata Film Festival India.
Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Italian Vogue, Mexican Vogue, Hong Kong Tatler, Grazia, Muse Magazine, WWD, The New York Times and Huffington Post
Synopsis:
A snake demoness, having transformed into a woman to experience human love, loses herself to obsession. Inspired by an ancient Chinese legend, and NYTimes bestselling author Neil Gaiman's poem "The Hidden Chamber", this decolage of poetry fragments and mythology questions the nature of obsession, identity and gender in metamorphosis through time.
Starring Daphne Guinness
Written and Directed by Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
With the "Hidden Chamber" a Poem by Neil Gaiman
Produced by GK Reid, Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, Daphne Guinness
Creative Directed by GK Reid
Beauty by Gordon Espinett and Romero Jennings for MAC Cosmetics