Producing some of the most iconic images of the ‘60s and ‘70s’ over their nine-year romantic and creative partnership, Italian photographer Franco Rubartelli captures fashion model and performance artist Veruschka von Lehndorff between philosophical musings and panoramas of rural Italy in a recovered clip from Veruschka: Poetry of a Woman.

A lost and rarely-screened film, shot in 1971 and co-written by Veruschka, the film also features a poignant soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone and featuring vocals by Edda Dell'Orso. While the film prints seem to be lost, with only a U-matic surviving in Venezuela, a VHS was recently rediscovered in Fashion in Film Festival's video archive, showing a body-painted Veruschka in a lush existentialist portrayal of personhood and contemplation of beauty as raw material.

Previewed in a clip edited by Marketa Uhlirova and Dal Chodha, curators of the 2025 Fashion in Film Festival, the full film will be screened from VHS as part of the festival’s 2025 edition GROUNDED: Fashion's Entanglement's with Nature, running across London venues from 20 May until 1 June.