AFA Movie Club x Monica Titton: The Fifth Element
The AFA Movie Club, in cooperation with Burg Kino, invites you to another movie night where fashion plays a significant role. The film selection was made by sociologist, fashion theorist, and cultural critic Monica Titton, who chose The Fifth Element from 1997 directed by Luc Besson.
Here’s how Monica Titton explains her choice: “I’ve always loved science fiction for its utopian imagination, and for the way it reimagines the body through attire drawn from sportswear, uniforms, and linear silhouettes. In The Fifth Element, costume takes centre stage. Jean-Paul Gaultier, who trained with Pierre Cardin – the designer of the Space Age – and later mentored Martin Margiela, created more than 1,000 (!) looks for the film. It’s a visual feast, a cult classic, and one of my all-time favourites. Among its many unforgettable moments: the alien opera singer mesmerizing a cosmic audience with her voice, and Milla Jovovich – bleached brows, athletic and incandescent as Leelo – absorbing the history of humanity in mere mintues. A dream.”
Monica Titton works as a Senior Scientist at Modeklasse, the Fashion Design Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she teaches courses in fashion history and theory. Born and raised in the Dolomites (Italy), she found her intellectual identity in Vienna and London, and now lives in Vienna and Rome. Her imagination and curiosity as a theorist are sparked by the many ways in which fashion is entangled with art, politics, culture, and history. With her work, she aims to build a bridge between the ivory tower of academic research and the fashion industry’s best efforts to deepen and broaden the visual culture it shapes.
25.06.25
Burg Kino
Opernring 19, 1010 Vienna
6.30 pm
English original version
Reduced ticket price: 5 Euro
