Screening: The Store
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – 17:00–Wednesday, November 5, 2025 – 19:30
The legendary documentary film creator Frederick Wiseman (b.1930) opens the doors to America’s most well-known department stores, Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas. Filmed in the four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas at the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas, TX, Wiseman’s revelatory look at the renowned department store discloses the many strategies and practices involved in the selling of luxury goods, from sable coats to lingerie. As he cuts between marketing meetings, personnel training, and fitting room sessions, Wiseman deftly shows how the store’s many departments operate in sync, enticing their customers into buying products on every floor.
The screening will be introduced by curators Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, who will speak about artistic opportunities in commercial spaces in relation to their exhibition and eponymous book Retail Apocalypse.
This is the third screening as part of "Fabricated Frames", a monthly film club curated by International Library of Fashion Research at Cinemateket in Oslo. Get your tickets now via cinemateket.no. See you Wednesday November 5th at 18.00!
