Films by Elle Muliarchyk

Intro

You may have noticed a lot of chat going on here at Motilo for the past week or so. These bright lips spouting all sorts of nonsense are thanks to the ever charming, always brilliant and truly gorgeous Elle Muliarchyk. This ex-model/artist cum linguist caught up with 50 of the world’s finest models earlier this year, and had them recite local tongue twisters for Motilo, the perfect concept for the site that everybody's talking about.

About Elle

New Yorker Elle was destined for linguistic greatness from a young age. Born unto a journalist and diplomat respectively, she grew up speaking a plethora of languages – from Czech to Vietnamese. “I speak 5 languages and understand even more. As a model, spending lots of time at the castings in a room buzzing with dozens of models from all over the world, I would inevitably overhear multiple private conversations.” Often fantasizing that she was privy to the biblical ‘Tower of Babel”, Elle has always fetishized the spoken word.

Using a mixture of her modeling and production connections she managed to gather together a stunning flock of almost 50 beautiful girls to wax lyrical in their native tongues. Over the duration of ten days, and with an average shooting schedule of six people per day, Elle immersed herself in a nonsensical world of tongue twisters. Describing her average working day as often continuing until the early hours of the morning in the editing suite, it is more than evident that this is a woman for whom life is her art. Dedication at such a level not only provides results as breathtaking as those seen here, but an immense amount of excitement for just what future projects will hold.

Models, Locations and Twistas

• Xiao Wen Ju – China - A pan on the table, theres a bottle in the pan; bang bangis it the bottle hitting the pan or the pan hitting the bottle.
• Tsubasa Watanabe – Japan - Raw wheat, raw rice, and raw egg. The Buddhist priest skilfully drew a picture of a Buddhist priest on a folding screen.
• Susan Im – Korea - The president of the soy sauce factory is President Kang and the president of the bean paste factory is president Kong.
• Sophie Srej – Hungary - Marta cannot be with anyone else because she is already with Thomas. What are you cooking, little furrier, are you roasting salted meat, little furrier?
• Shu Pei Qin – China - When eating grapes, don't spit out the skin, when not eating grapes, spit out the skin.
• Sana Soegaard Belal – Denmark - Smoked trout with scrambled eggs and red jelly with cream.
• Renee van Seggern – Holland - When monkeys imitate monkeys, monkeys imitate monkeys.
• Rasa Zakauskaite – Lithuania - A bowl floats in a pond, a bit of foam floats in the bowl.
• Pauline van der Cruysse – Belgium - Seven black swans swim in the south sea. The carriage driver polishes the carriage with carriage polish.
• Oroma Elewa – Nigeria - Lady tailor, are you crying because the hen laid an egg on the dress you made that was lying on the bed?
• Nykhor Paul – Sudan - (Nuer) Is the frog kicking the pumpkin with his tailbone or is he not kicking the pumpkin with his tailbone?
• Nina Keita - Ivory Coast - A hunter who knows how to hunt has to know how to hunt without his hunting dog.
• Mila – Ukraine - Brown beavers waded a ford but they forgot to bring their bags.
• Kat Hessen - Norway - The bell in Ringerike doesn't ring. So Ringerike had to move to Rommerike. But there wasn't enough room in Rommerike for Ringerike, and that's why Ringerike had to stay where it was.
• Kasia Kniola – Poland - The frogs croak in Rzeszowszczyznie in the rain and can be heard all the way to Ustrzyk, earth worms wriggle in Kurpiowszczyznie and in the jungle the owl squeaks.
• Iana Godnia – Ukraine - Brown beavers waded a ford but they forgot to bring their bags.
• Hana Soukopova - Czech Republic - 333 silver sprinklers were spraying over 333 silver roofs. Stick finger through throat.
• Gaye Macdonald – Jamaica - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Daniela Mirzac – Romania - A blonde old lady eats a huge banana.
• Chantal Stafford Abbott – Canada - My father is a mayor, my brother is a masseur.
• Aysche Tiefenbrunner – Germany - A chaplain glues cardboard posters, cardboard posters glues the chaplain.
• Ajak Deng – Sudan - (Dinka) An emu tramped in the water and now the rat has nothing to drink so he chews on a toothpick.
• Ataui Deng – Sudan - (Arabic) I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream.
• Anais Pouliot – Canada - These six sausages are six cents. Dido ate, it is said, from the back of a fat turkey.