jason evans put us in touch with director of photography arseni khachaturan, who in turn put us in touch with writer / director dea kulumbegashvili. they were looking for a poster for dea's second feature film, april, which was having its world premiere at the venice film festival. caspar watched the film and met with dea in berlin to discuss it.
a few days later we presented dea and arseni with a range of ideas, and they chose the approach you see here. the film is a dark, surrealistic tale about a female doctor in the country of georgia who performs unsanctioned abortions for woman, in face of oppressive, patriarchal and often religious resistance. the poster is an attempt to express the impossible and painful level of denial one feels the men in the film are imposing upon the women.
caspar made the poster with paper, ink, paint, a pencil, a knife, a printer, a camera and photoshop. the approach here, aesthetically speaking, is in part an homage to the great work of postermaker
lanny sommese. however the influence of painters
cy twombly and
rené magritte is clearly in there too. do see this film if you have the means, it's remarkable.
