FKA twigs’ collective ‘Avant Garden’ launches its new era in film for the 2022 International Woolmark Prize in special partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Inspired by the famed landscape artist and architect’s vision of play as a creative catalyst, PLAYSCAPE merges influence from fashion, art, dance, and music. 

Choreographed by classically trained dancer Juliano Nunes, the film opens with an empty gallery of Noguchi’s play sculptures, which becomes populated by a diverse ensemble cast of characters. In the second part, the cast enters an imaginary landscape, where a ballet sensibility is combined with elements drawn from hip hop, modernism, contemporary dance and punk aesthetics. With creative direction by Zak Group, the short film showcases the merino wool looks from the International Woolmark Prize finalists Ahluwalia, EGONLAB, Jordan Dalah, MMUSOMAXWELL, Peter Do, RUI, and Saul Nash.

Director: FKA twigs⁠
Creative Direction: Zak Group⁠
Choreographer: Juliano Nunes⁠
Production Company: Object & Animal⁠
Producer: Jen Gelin⁠
DOP: Rina Yang⁠
Stylist: Matthew Josephs⁠
Still Photographer: Jules Moskovtchenko⁠
Edit: Dave Davis & Trim Editing⁠
Colourist: Luke Morrison⁠
Post: Electric Theatre Collective
Casting: HUXLEY⁠
Featuring: kiddysmile, Princess Julia, Kai Isaiah Jamal, Alex Thirkle, Dmitri Gruzdev, Ève-Marie Dalcourt, Hannah Raynor, Meschach Henry, Salomé Pressac, Tania Dimbelolo, and maycie⁠

The Finalists

Ahluwalia

EGONLAB

Jordan Dalah

MMUSOMAXWELL

Peter Do

RUI

Saul Nash