My poem won six prizes!
'New World Order' for The Travel Almanac won Best Fashion Film at Milan Fashion Film Festival
I met Timur Celikdag on a shoot for i-D magazine back when I was modelling in 2011. I’m second up on the right-hand side. Look at my silly face!
Then, a decade later during the pandemic he got in touch again. “Max… would you like to write a poem for a film I’m doing? It’s for The Travel Almanac and about consumption and over-surveillance.”
Yes, Timur, yes I would.
It also happened to be a time when I was drinking a lot.
I wrote the poem and didn’t think much more about it. I then forgot. I then didn’t coherently check my phone. I missed the announcements… the shortlisting…
And I missed that it won six awards - two in Milan and four in Istanbul. It was shortlisted for prizes normally only entered by big ad agencies and production companies. We won Best Fashion Film.
I see you burning. Drowning. I ask what we will see and they tell me destruction I ask Him and He tells me Judgement Look. Life hangs in our hands like flowers cast into water. Everything we do is connected, collected, recorded. It is not ours alone. We are one of many. We think we can control the future but without change there is no option. We are witnesses to oceans on fire. There is more than us. Look. We have an opportunity. We are more than our component parts. Think. Something is happening. We have changed We have evolved We have become more than just Human We have a duty We have a duty to care. Shh. Close your eyes and think backwards. To when we were just water. Close your eyes and see the truth. Close your eyes and see how things could be different.
It won Best Green Film, Best New Fashion Film, at the Fashion Film Festival Milano in 2022 and then won Best Fashion Film, Best Styling, Best Make Up, Best Hair at the Istanbul Fashion Film Festival.
Nominated by:
Berlin Commercial
One Point Four
Aesthetica Short Film Festival,
Athens Fashion Film Festival
Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam
Credits:
The Travel Almanac
Cinematography - Luke Palmer @lukehpalmer at @ko_collective and David J. Adams @sirdavidadams
Editor - Amy Dang @amyydone
Composer - Ieva Vaiti aka PIKSEL @piksel_ieva
Colourist - David J. Adams @sirdavidadams
Voice Over - Lucia Tong @pangeart_uk
Production - Noir Productions @noir.productions
Machine drawing - Ateliers Tresset @patricktresset
Talents:
Celina @ Established
Isaac @ Named
Lily Ashley @ Storm
Lin Yap @ Models1
Phoebe @ The Hive & Jason Minnaar
Jess Maybury @ Elite London
Lili Parkes & Yasmin Klein
Poppy @ Lindenstaub
Yasmin Kakane @ IMG London
Zhou Chen @ Next London