Met Gala Doc ‘The First Monday’ in May To Open 2016 Tribeca Film FestivalPosted by Wilson Morales
February 22, 2016
Today the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, announced that the world premiere of The First Monday in May will open the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 13, taking place downtown at the Festival’s main venue at BMCC Tribeca PAC (Westside Highway at Chambers Street).
Opening the Festival’s 15th edition with a film highlighting art, fashion and culture set around such an iconic museum, demonstrates TFF’s celebration of cultural institutions.
Each year, on the first Monday in May, the Met opens its doors to the fashion world’s preeminent titans for the time-honored fundraising gala/jaw-dropping couture parade known as the Met Gala. Launched in 1948, the Met Gala aids in the preservation of the Met’s Costume Institute, a priceless collection of more than thirty-five thousand costumes and accessories that spans five continents and seven centuries of fashion. The Gala coincides with an annual Institute exhibition, whose theme is then adopted by the Gala. These themes serve as a more or less official dress code for the Gala’s guests and can range anywhere from punk or Prada to Le Belle Époque or Balenciaga — even equestrianism, as was the concept behind 1984’s Gala.
Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Andrew Rossi, The First Monday in May follows lead Andrew Bolton, currently the Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, and offers an intimate and all-access look at the creation of last year’s “China: Through the Looking Glass,” an exploration of China’s substantial influence on Western fashion that was the Met’s most-attended Costume Institute exhibition in history. Through this specific emphasis, Rossi’s film analyzes the fraught and fascinating interplay between the fashion world’s dueling artistic, cultural, and stylistic influences.
