After welcoming its largest attendance to the Festival in 2015, it’s befitting that the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival will open on Wednesday, April 13 with a fusion of fine art, high fashion and culture documentary that intimately explores The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended Costume Institute exhibition in history.
Presented by AT&T and sponsored by Farfetch with special thanks to Thakoon, the world premiere of The First Monday in May sees Emmy Award nominated filmmaker Andrew Rossi reunite with Magnolia Pictures to capture Curator-in-Charge of the Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton, as he curates the Chinese-inspired Western fashions exhibition ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’.
‘The First Monday in May illuminates the debate between fine art, fashion, pop culture and captures the creativity, passion and visionaries behind the exhibition and gala – Andrew Bolton and Anna Wintour’, said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, and Executive Chair, Tribeca Enterprises. ‘It is an honour to pay tribute to a fellow New York cultural institution on our opening night’.
With unprecedented access, the film explores the intersection of fine art and high fashion as it collides with pop culture at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events co-chaired every year by Condé Nast Artistic Director and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, Ricardo Tisci and John Galliano, the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art.
‘It’s an honor to premiere this film downtown with the Tribeca Film Festival for their fifteenth Festival, and I am truly thrilled to partner again with Magnolia Pictures’, said director Andrew Rossi. ‘The First Monday in May celebrates creativity in art and fashion and is deeply rooted in the creative world of New York, so to launch at a Festival that came into life in order to support that culture is very meaningful. We’re so excited to have the team at Magnolia behind the film, bringing it to audiences all across the country’.
Produced by Fabiola Beracasa Beckman, Sylvana Ward Durrett, and Dawn Ostroff, in association with Relativity Media, Condé Nast Entertainment, Mediaweaver Entertainment and Sarah Arison Productions, The First Monday in May features Wong Kar Wai, film director and Artistic Director of “China: Through the Looking Glass”; Baz Luhrmann, film director and creative consultant for the Met Gala; Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley; Harold Koda, former Curator-in-Charge of the Costume Institute; Thomas Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Maxwell K. Hearn and Douglas Dillon, Chairmen of the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as cameos from some of the leading names in fashion and entertainment.
The Festival offer a variety of different passes and package options as well as single ticket sales that you can check out here. You can also see the trailer for the film below.
