{"id":3933,"date":"2022-07-22T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:37:09","slug":"mubi-movie-poster-of-the-week-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/22\/mubi-movie-poster-of-the-week-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"MUBI, movie poster of the week + interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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our poster for alexandra stergiou\u2019s<\/a> hybrid documentary, the act of coming out<\/a>, was selected as MUBI’s movie poster of the week<\/a> today. to accompany the selection caspar was interviewed by adrian curry<\/a> about the making of the poster. you can read an excerpt from the interview here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTEBOOK: <\/strong>As with A Confucian Confusion<\/em>, your poster feels as if you should be able to step back from it and a face will start to appear, but only a very vague sense of a face forms. Is there an actual face in there or is it a multitude of faces mashed together?<\/p>

NEWBOLT: <\/strong>There is an actual face there but much like standing very close to a large painting by Seurat, when you are close to the poster you end up seeing only a cloud of colors and thus having the vaguest sense of a face or a multitude of faces as a result. That said if you squint your eyes, even close up, you\u2019ll see the face much more clearly.<\/p>

It will perhaps remind people of that famous scene in John Hughes\u2019s Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em> (1986) where they visit Chicago\u2019s Art Institute and Cameron Frye ends up transfixed in front of Seurat\u2019s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<\/em> (1886). The picture was painted exactly 100 years before the Hughes film came out, and this particular scene in the film hit me very hard when I first saw it.<\/p>

I am the son of two painters and grew up in museums and art galleries around the world. I knew every word of Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em> by heart by the time I was 14, inspired largely I\u2019m sure by this moment Cameron has with the Seurat. I myself had stared in just such a way at just so many paintings as a kid. I love that in the director\u2019s commentary for the film John Hughes describes Seurat\u2019s pointillistic painting style as being like filmmaking, in that: \u201cYou\u2019re very very close to it. You don\u2019t have any idea what you\u2019ve made until you step back from it.\u201d (You can see the scene and hear Hughes\u2019 commentary here<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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It was important to Alexandra and I that, because of the film\u2019s narrative, you could not clearly tell the gender or ethnicity of the person in the poster. The film presents a series of queer and trans actors of various ethnicities exploring what Alexandra describes as \u201cthe never ending process of coming out,\u201d and if you look at the LGBTQ flag you can better appreciate the color field we created for the poster. We strove therefore to create an image of a person with a visage comprised of these many shifting colors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

you can read the rest of the interview here<\/a>. a huge thank you again to adrian curry<\/a> and to everyone at MUBI for the continued support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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