Freida Pinto, John Krasinski and Jack Huston star alongside Allison Williams, Kuoth Wiel, Sinqua Walls, Paula Patton, Connie Britton and Sacha Baron Cohen in the film Past Forward, an exclusive collaboration between Miuccia Prada and the Oscar-winning director David O. Russell. The work received its world premiere at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Gallery in Los Angeles on 15 November.
With showings planned in a variety of settings – in the cinema, at art installations, on social media and online – Past Forward is a study of feminine identity, a recurring theme in Miuccia Prada’s work: every woman wears fragments of her history, experiences, loves and dramas on her body.
David O. Russell conceived Past Forward as a dreamlike, surreal and silent landscape, where the different scenes are repeated in various combinations. It offers a parallax vision in which the scenes, costumes, genres and numerous finales repeat and change, rejecting all logic of conventional narrative. The characters form part of a complex collage, with the task of deciphering the experience, memory and dream and of understanding the juxtaposition and the differences between the characters left to the viewer.
When the editing was complete, David O. Russell declared: “Miuccia Prada set me a challenge: to create a cinematographic, dreamlike work… A cinematographic journey free from the usual narrative or the expectations of the public, guided by layers of memories in film, images and the emotions thrown up by life, with the sole aim of creating art.”
Past Forward,
David O. Russell’s film for Prada
