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dead serious_film poster

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poster for the short film, dead serious.
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our friend and long-time collaborator myriam schroeter teamed up with her pal lizi latimer to write and direct a short film. the film is called dead serious and tells the story of a mother who surprises her adult children with a trip to the cemetery where she wants to be buried.

we presented a series of directions the poster could take and lizi and myriam chose this one. to make the poster caspar first created a piece of ascii art of jessica hecht's smiling face. he then placed a differing sized grave stone, tree stump or tuft of grass by hand over each corresponding character in the ascii art. honestly we would not recommend trying this at home, kids — his hand is now pretty bent out of shape.

you can watch the film here.
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nobudge.com/dead-serious
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man eating pussy_film poster

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poster for the short film, man eating pussy.
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writer / director emily lawson reached out to us having just completed principal photography on this her most recent short film. she wondered if we'd be interested in making a poster for it. 

needless to say the title of this film does not prepare you for what this film has to offer. we had to watch it three times in a row to fully digest it, and even then were not sure if we could make a poster for it. however some days later it occurred to us that we were perhaps the only people who should make the poster for this film, and we called emily to say that.

we won't ruin the film or the poster by explaining what emily's short is about. suffice to say it's worth seeing if you ever have the means, and that we hope this poster is enigmatic and alluring enough to make you want to.

we presented a series of concepts to emily and she chose the direction you see here. the image on the poster was made by way of a series of experiments carried out by izzy roth-dishy in new york and caspar in berlin. the materials used in the process were corn syrup, cocoa powder, red food colouring, cotton wool, blood and milk. all were manipulated and photographed in a fashion greatly inspired by and in homage to the french artist frederic fontenoy.

the film was selected for the 2025 SXSW film festival whilst we were working on the poster.
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imdb.com/title/tt39308826
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cloud factory_film posters

cf poster 2
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posters for the short film, cloud factory.
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as previously alluded to, here is the original set of posters we made for hannes lang's film, wolkenfabrik (cloud factory). these were eventually set aside in favour of the letter pressed versions of the poster, but nevertheless we wanted to publish them here for posterity's sake.

once again this film is a beautiful, thought-provoking piece of work that documents the existence of a power station outside of a small town in cologne in germany. the film consists of conversations with the town's inhabitants laid over footage of the factory's vast chimney's billowing pollution into the atmosphere in an undeniably beautiful fashion. similarly the town's inhabitants seem conflicted about the factory's importance in their lives.

the intention with this set of two posters was to combine stills from the film with cut up pieces of classical portrait paintings. these collages, made in homage to the great work of eduard bezembinder, were created in order to obliquely interpret the anonymous voice-overs we hear throughout the film. these are the voices of various inhabitants in the area who happen to live close to the power station. by reducing this collective consciousness to one classical painting without a face, but with their hands up in the air, we believed we could talk about the film in a more symbolic and thus timeless fashion. such is the every day nature of the human condition — "if it's not one thing, it's another."

caspar made both posters in photoshop. the first one here is our favourite. it uses a fragment of a painting by titian entitled the mother dolorosa with her hands apart. the other poster you can see here.

you can watch a trailer for the film here. we cannot recommend it enough. 
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petroliofilm.de/filme/wolkenfabrik
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