Morphē

Synopsis

Morphē is a short film conceived by multidisciplinary artist Lucy McRae in collaboration with Australian skincare brand Aesop. It playfully presages a new juncture for science and beauty, transforming an old Amsterdam church into a meticulously ordered space that references Aesop’s own laboratory. Here, a painstaking Scientist employs an assortment of gels, liquids, and weird contraptions to minister arcane beauty treatments to a sleeping Muse. The skin and hair play key roles for the female specimen fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of a new kind of super-sensory beauty treatment. McRae describes her film inspired chiefly by nineteenth-century scientist and philosopher Hermann von Helmholtz, and his revolutionary research on human perception: ‘Everything’, wrote Helmholtz, ‘is an event on the skin’. ‘I wanted to suggest a journey inside a world beyond skin care, one that involves farther realms of perception within the sensory landscape of the human body.'

Main Cast

Cara To

Muse

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Victor Helmich

Scientist

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Lucy McRae
Production	Producer	Holly Krueger
	Production Assistant	Holger Gons Jack Yoern
	Casting	Sanne van Wersch
Art	Production Design	Barnaby Monk
	Assistant Art Director	Maaike Fransen
	First Assistant Art Direction	Laetitia Migliore
	Art Department Assistant	Maya LaCroix Frank Verkade James Teng
Camera	Director of Photography	Hessel Waalewijn
Editing	Editor	Ine van den Elsen
	Project Manager	Dan Honey
Sound	Music	Eduardo Noya Schreus
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Designer	Janneke Verhoeven
Lighting	Lighting Design	Owen Kuipers
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