writer / director and friend jorge thieland armand asked that we might make the poster and titles for his third feature film, death has no master. the film stars asia argento and follows the story of a woman traveling to venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation. upon arrival she finds that the family mansion is now occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. caro decides then to take justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, and in doing so she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.
we created the film's titles first and then the poster. the poster treatment was inspired by the teachings of
joseph cambpell whose books and recordings caspar was studying at the time. it repurposes an image from
canto XII of the gustave doré illustrated dante's inferno as a way of alluding to film's narrative. this particular book was chosen as a graphic foundation for the poster because it plays a part in the film, and because the minotaur / labyrinth story is one that—as joseph campbell suggests—represents the idea of facing one's personal demons. furthermore the minotaur himself (real name: asterion) is a mythological character that some now feel has been misunderstood; his condition the result of ungodly amounts of abuse and trauma. someone not unlike one of the other key characters in the film.
the poster was created in berlin by caspar using a laptop, a printer, a scalpel, a scanner and a camera.
