Cannes demanded I think about cinema — not just the red carpet parade, but the romance of film itself. The Vespertine Film Reel Archivists guard the twilight screenings, the last prints of forgotten masterpieces. Selam Weisslicht carries both Tigrinya regal bearing and Alsatian precision in her face — she looks like someone who could have been discovered by Fellini and directed by Haneke. The abandoned cinema setting lets me honor the festival while escaping the obvious red carpet shot. That gown made of 'unwinding film reels' — I wanted something that photographs like it's already a still from the greatest movie never made. —Vesper