When Prada asked me to be the face of their new fragrance campaign, I asked if I could direct it.
Months later, and I’m able to share the results of the faith they shared in me, with all of you.
I can’t wait to share this piece of my art, and hope that you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.
I could never have done this without my unbelievable team of collaborators. Thank you for your time, commitment, talent and passion.
My directorial debut and Prada’s newest refillable fragrance, coming soon.
x E
@pradabeauty
#pradabeauty
#pradabeautypartner
Despite the grand scale of this commercial, this vignette may have been my favourite. An intimate scene of me & the mirror – I wanted to capture the rare moments during the day you have when you get to look your own self in the eye.
VIll
Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
~William Butler Yeats
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
#KEEPTHEMINTHEGROUND
@fossilfueltreaty
Dear friends,
We are asking you to join us in signing a treaty to end the expansion of Fossil Fuels. The link to the treaty is in the bio. Please sign it. Please share it. Please read the slides provided that further explain what it is.
And then hopefully, like us, get righteous about it. Get angry about it. Let it break your heart. Let it motivate you. Let it inspire you to action. Because what we are asking you to participate in is a non-partisan issue. It is in fact a universal issue. It is the loss of our home. It is the loss of our futures. There is no one person immune from this problem.
It does however, affect everyone in different ways. It is unfortunately an issue that must be SYSTEMATICALLY changed, because those who are without resources cannot afford such a transition on their own. There is just only so much we can do individually. But what we can ALL do to help – is start here.
Join us in adding your name to the treaty.
Your voice is powerful.
Our voice is powerful.
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
– UN Secretary General António Guterres
“We are currently on track for at least a 2.7 C hotter world by the end of the century — and that’s only if countries meet all the pledges that they have made. Currently they are nowhere near doing that.”
– Greta Thunberg
“I hope you can appreciate that where I live, a 2 degree world means that a billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress. In a 2 degree celsius world – some places in the global south will regularly reach a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius and at that temp, the human body cannot cool itself by sweating… We don’t believe you. We don’t believe that banks will suddenly put trillions of dollars on the table for climate action, when rich countries have struggled since 2009 to raise the money for the world’s most vulnerable countries.”
– Vanessa Nakate
I didn’t actually set out to start making films. I’d say the real beginning was taking in what I saw going on around me on set, & then starting to learn how to apply it in other parts of my life. For instance: my Mum nervously would be getting ready for her job interviews, & knowing I knew how to apply makeup after so many hours of watching other people do it in the makeup chair, we made it our ritual that I would do her face before any of her important occasions.
Then filmmaking itself started by making love letters to my friends. Whether it was styling them, or producing photoshoots for their websites or headshots for their businesses – I loved helping out. Selfishly sometimes I also did it because I just wanted them to see all the beauty I saw in them that they never seemed to get.
Then over time I started assisting a friend running sound on set. Then, very slowly I started working behind the camera (It hurt my back so much at first 😂). Then I got involved in editing. Now here I am, sharing my first go at directing something.
I couldn’t have done it without the friends I could be vulnerable enough with to show that I didn’t know what I was doing & to ask for help from every step of the way. To these people (you know who you are) you have literally made a mark on my life & I hope I always get to make things WITH you. Thanks for believing in me.
@emma_webstah this is my love letter to you. As a woman I always found the idea of living alone terrifying… & when you told me you had been living in the garage above your studio to dedicate yourself to what you really wanted to do despite everyone’s “good and well intentioned advice” – was when I knew I wanted to make my first tiny film about you. I just instantly wanted to try & capture who you were & the importance of your work. That’s what feels so beautiful about directing to me – you get to fall in love!
Thanks for being so cool Emma. Your work, writing & being inspires me so much. I feel so grateful to have friends like you that I just hope I can keep up with courage-wise. Thanks for being as excited as I was about cookie dough for lunch on the shoot day. And you rock that jumpsuit. E
🎶 by @theprinceofeden
A production brought to life in a matter of hours, with a wonderful team from around the world. 🖤
Cezanne’s studio
D A I S Y ‘ S
🎨 together we rise
This project gave me the opportunity to express what I do through multiple dimensions. In this scene, I wanted to illustrate that everyone can explore their inner artist that can bring joy to life.
“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
