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poster for the documentary short, after.
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rob o'brien – an old school friend of caspar's – reached out. he'd just finished making a documentary about losing his mother. the film is called "after". the 8 minute short film depicts rob and his sister entering their mother's now empty house soon after she passed. we witness their immediate reactions to seeing the house looking very much as if she'd only just walked out the door, and might even come back at any moment.

we presented a range of ideas and rob chose the one you see here. the picture of his mother used is the one he has in his kitchen right now, and yes his mother's name began with the letter E. the rest of the poster tries to simply reflect upon the terribly empty space which she surely left behind.
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poster for the feature film, april.
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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. 
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(2024_film)
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mubi movie poster of the day
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poster for the feature film, the swallow.
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writer / director tadhg o'sullivan asked that we might make a poster for his debut narrative feature film, the swallow, starring brenda fricker. it had just been selected for both the telluride and dublin international film festivals. the film is a beautifully considered, shot and paced piece about an irish painter living alone and writing unsendable letters to her lost love. in beautifully composed passages of text she discusses art, it's meaning and her purpose in life. all the while tadhg juxtaposes her movements around her house and the surrounding lands with paintings by courbet, millet and so on.

caspar presented a range of ideas to tadhg, and then they met in berlin to discuss them. tadhg ultimately went with the approach you see here, utilizing a postcard of jean-françois millet's, the gleaners. the poster was made with a printer, scanner and some paper card torn out of a decrepit 1962 french book of touen houang chinese wall paintings.
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imdb.com/title/tt33303835
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