“I’ll be there as much as you need”
ASVOFF's “Mental Health in Fashion”
This category opens dialogue, challenges stereotypes, and examines the powerful links between fashion, wellbeing, and society through diverse and thought-provoking films.
Music by me. Sound design by me and Luis Jimenez Adriano
What is the film about?
Set within the unsettling reality of a contemporary fashion world, the film unfolds as a three-act descent into the obsessions that shape the industry.
Act I
Accumulation explores the compulsive desire to possess, collect, and retain. Surrounded by objects, excess, and repetition, the first protagonist becomes trapped in a world where abundance slowly turns into obsession.
Act II
Acceleration shifts into a distorted relationship with time. Driven by urgency and relentless motion, the second protagonist inhabits a reality where everything must happen faster — until time itself begins to fracture.
Act III
Surface Control abandons action and enters a space of pure perception. Here, clothing, texture, gesture, and image become the protagonists. The third character moves through an ambiguous world suspended between beauty and unease, where value is no longer measured by what something does, but by what it makes us feel, desire, and believe.