CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Fashion, Italian ability and the art of the clothier bang in the documentary blur "Men of the Cloth."
The film, by Vicki Vasilopoulos of New Jersey, is an alarming account of three adept tailors. The Cleveland premiere of the blur is Friday with a additional assuming on Wednesday Nov. 18 from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
On Friday night, bounded custom tailor Davide Cotugno of Executive Tailors in Brecksville will acquaint the blur and participate in a Q&A affair afterward the screening. After Wednesday's showing, Vasilopoulos will conduct a Q&A via Skype.
The blur has apparent in well-regarded arthouse cinemas beyond the apple from New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia and Minneapolis to Toronto, Amsterdam and Melbourne, Australia. The blur was voted Audience Favorite at the Three Rivers Blur Anniversary in Pittsburgh.
The documentary is an alarming account of three aged Italian adept tailors. It accustomed assembly grants and berry allotment from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and had its apple premiere at DOC NYC, the better documentary blur anniversary in America.
"Men of the Cloth" is a close-up attending at the mystery, science and ability of the dematerialization art of tailoring. The blur centers about Nino Corvato, Joe Centofanti, and Checchino Fonticoli, adept tailors who accept spent a lifetime acquirements to altogether assemble absolute custom-built apparel for their audience in New York City, Philadelphia and Penne, Italy. In the afterglow of their career, they abhorrence that their Old-World ability and adroitness will vanish with them.
Vasilopoulos describes area the abstraction for the blur came from.
"I met Checchino Fonticoli aboriginal on a cruise to Italy area I was advertisement on the affluence market. He gave me a bout of the Brioni branch and dressmaking academy in the boondocks of Penne, and again alien me to his accessory Antonio, who was the aftermost actual absolute clothier in town. I was absorbed and absorbed and bound accomplished that craftsmen of his ability were like the aftermost of the Mohicans. That buried a berry that would booty 11 years to appear to accomplishment as a completed film," she said.
The blur additionally introduces Philadelphia built-in and dressmaking amateur Joe Genuardi who brings achievement for the approaching of the ability by demonstrating the accepted absorption in it as an another to the accumulation assembly of garments.
The blur opens a window into the past, present and approaching of the craft, which alcove as far aback as the Italian Renaissance.
Vasilopoulos has a accomplishments in appearance and was a Senior Appearance Editor at DNR, the men's account magazine, now a allotment of WWD. Vasilopoulos has appear appearance in The New York Times, Esquire, Time Out New York and New Jersey Monthly.
She is a affiliate of the Absolute Filmmaker Project, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the International Documentary Association, and New York Women in Blur and Television, for which she served as a blur alternation programmer. Vasilopoulos accustomed a bachelor's amount in Journalism from NYU and has advised at the Paris Appearance Institute in France and at The Appearance Institute of Technology in New York City. "Men of the Cloth" is her aboriginal film.
The documentary was filmed in the United States and in Italy and was completed in 2013. It runs 96 minutes.
What you charge to know:
Admission is $9, CMA members, seniors 65 & over and acceptance are $7, or one CMA Blur Alternation Voucher. See the museum website to acquirement tickets or for added advice (clevelandart.org)
Show times at the Morley Lecture Hall at the Cleveland Museum of Art:
6:45 to 8:45 p.m. on Friday Nov. 13
6:45 to 8:45 on Wednesday Nov. 18
For added advice about the blur and to appearance the bivouac go to menoftheclothfilm.com
