Girl Model
Verzio9 FF Submission. Duration: 01:28:00 Despite the lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours Siberia looking fo...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian English Japanese |
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Redmon, David ; Sabin, Asley ; Garriott, Marcy ; Garriott, Robert
2011
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:c83d92d2-a371-493a-942b-4a061e8ff17e |
| Summary: | Verzio9 FF Submission.
Duration: 01:28:00
Despite the lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours Siberia looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. Yet the ideal way of fleeing poverty turns out to be harder than she had expected. Nadya's model scout Ashley knows all about it. Resigned to the situation, she observes how the Japanese are obsessed with youth and beauty. She looks back on her career and sees how not every girl in a bikini is really earning her money from photo shoots. The filmmakers followed the two women, who speak frankly about their lives and represent two extremes of the tough world of modeling; while Nadya's determination to make it as a model intensifies, so does Ashley's ambivalent and pessimistic view of the modeling world. |
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| Published: | 2011 |