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the curfew_film poster

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poster for the short film, the curfew.
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writer, director and visual artist shehrezad maher reached out after finding our work online. they had just finished their first narrative short film and it had been selected for the orizzonti short films international competition at this year's venice biennale. 

the film follows ayaan as he becomes a temporary caregiver for his indian grandmother. both from the same ethnic background and yet separated by a language barrier, they find themselves adrift in a silence haunted by spectres of a colonial past. this rift starts to affect how ayaan sees strangers and himself.

caspar watched the film and was immediately taken by it. after much discussion with shehrezad caspar presented a series of directions a poster for the film could take. shehrezad chose the one you see here and then mailed various props from the film from new york to caspar in berlin. work then began on printing the vintage photograph, cutting perspex, buying ice cream, and then designing, lighting and photographing the scene you see here. the delicate and fetching ice cream styling was done by mina munarova.

do see this film if you have have the means. it has one shot in it in particular that we've found hard to forget.
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labiennale.org/en/cinema/2025/orizzonti/curfew
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desire lines_film poster

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poster for the feature film, desire lines.
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producer zsuzsanna kiraly and writer / director dane komljen reached out again and asked that we make a poster for their new feature film. the film is called desire lines (linije želje) and had just been selected to play in competition at the locarno film festival.

caspar watched the film and was immediately excited to work on it. he and dane then spoke on the phone. it was during that call they came up with the idea you see here. caspar then went and bought some clay and started to make the "worm". after that he printed out the poster's main type / photo treatment onto paper and wet the paper in a bowl of water. he then placed the wet paper over the worm like a bedsheet. slowly the paper dried and eventually caspar captured the image you see here, using artificial lighting. 

if you have the means to see this film, we highly recommend it. it's quite unlike anything else.
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danekomljen.com/desire-lines
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rotacismo_film poster

spanish poster
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poster for the feature documentary, rotacismo.
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director ricardo ruales eguiguren reached out after finding our work through a google search. he was finishing work on his debut feature film, an experimental documentary about himself and his family, and wanted a poster for it. the film is called rotacismo, in spanish, and "the broken R" in english. 

ricardo was born with treacher collins syndrome and with it—amongst other things—came an inability for him to pronounce the letter R. this meant he could not at first even pronounce his own name. the film explores how this idea became emblematic for his relationship with his parents. it reveals how that in learning to say his own name, and in pointing the camera at himself and his family, he fought back against their inability to talk about any of this with him.

caspar watched the film and was immediately taken by the layered emotional complexity of the work. in talking to ricardo it was clear that making the film was not just a process of self confrontation and realization, but also a process of finally and successfully communicating the level of his suffering to his inattentive parents.

caspar presented a series of potential directions the poster could take, and ricardo chose the one you see here. the poster was then made in the berlin studio using a various typefaces, a printer, lots of paper, a camera and natural light. the resulting collage is an attempt to talk both about learning to pronounce the letter R and about how this process started a deeper journey into obtaining a clearer picture of himself in the eyes of his parents.

the photograph of ricardo used in the poster was taken by the film's editor nicole moscoso. it was created specifically for the piece by using a beveled mirror.

the film was selected to play at sheffield docfest whilst we were making the poster. you can watch a trailer for it here. if you have the chance do please see this searing, brave and original film. 
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imdb.com/title/tt36870646
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