Role Models

ROLE MODELS is a film about everyday photo habitués who traverse the streets of NY and Paris in pursuit of models to snap pictures of outside fashion shows.  They are frequenters of an outside, birdwatchers of female beauty, gleaners - picking up images at the margins, at the gates of patronised culture.In this image-coded world, they exist in ways that are equally social, para-social, and anti-social. The film is about Longing in a culture of distantiating transparency and the mediated image, about the desire that got misplaced along the road somewhere.  It’s a phenomenology of the outside: about those who don’t get to (and perhaps don’t even want to) exist on the inside—who don’t wear the badge of officialdom or the wristband of admittance.it is a verité documentary that is turning itself upside down; a patchwork of characters; about men who look at women, men looking at women.