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the poster you see here was the second of two posters caspar made after presenting a range of possible directions to john and neha. it's an homage to and an evolution of the work of michael bierut, ryan habbyshaw and some others. the intention with the poster was not only to speak to the film's narrative but also to the larger political picture regarding the united states of america these days. 

the film will be having a special screening at the buffalo international film festival. do see it if you have the means. it's a moving, probing and highly timely piece of work.

the film follows ayaan as he becomes a temporary caregiver for his indian grandmother. both from the same ethnic background and yet separated by a language barrier, they find themselves adrift in a silence haunted by spectres of a colonial past. this rift starts to affect how ayaan sees strangers and himself.

do see this film if you have have the means. it has one shot in it in particular that we've found hard to forget.

caspar watched the film and was immediately excited to work on it. he and dane then spoke on the phone. it was during that call they came up with the idea you see here. caspar then went and bought some clay and started to make the "worm". after that he printed out the poster's main type / photo treatment onto paper and wet the paper in a bowl of water. he then placed the wet paper over the worm like a bedsheet. slowly the paper dried and eventually caspar captured the image you see here, using artificial lighting. 

if you have the means to see this film, we highly recommend it. it's quite unlike anything else.

ricardo was born with treacher collins syndrome and with it—amongst other things—came an inability for him to pronounce the letter R. this meant he could not at first even pronounce his own name. the film explores how this idea became emblematic for his relationship with his parents. it reveals how that in learning to say his own name, and in pointing the camera at himself and his family, he fought back against their inability to talk about any of this with him.

the photograph of ricardo used in the poster was taken by the film's editor nicole moscoso. it was created specifically for the piece by using a beveled mirror.

the film was selected to play at sheffield docfest whilst we were making the poster. you can watch a trailer for it here. if you have the chance do please see this searing, brave and original film. 

we dug the movie and talked to trey about his intentions with the work and how he'd like to talk about it in poster form. caspar then sent trey a series of ideas, and trey chose the one you see here.

the film is about a young sex worker who—anxious about not having enough money to persue his career as a concert pianist—violates a client’s privacy, triggering unexpected consequences. 

the poster tries to capture the sexualized surveillance aspect of the film. it's also a nod to certain key lines of dialogue in the film's denouement. caspar made it in berlin using a printer, a sheet of white metal, some water, a sponge, plenty of sunlight and a camera.

the film will have its world premiere at palm springs short fest this month.

cloud factory 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.

caspar leapt at the chance to make a poster for the film, and laid out a few directions the work could take. after abandoning one idea (which we may publish another time), hannes settled on the direction you see here.

the intention was to contrast chimney smoke caught in the light of an evening sunset, with a letter-pressed type treatment. the result leaves us with the feeling of a powerstation's metallic dent in a landscape, whilst never obscuring our view of how pollution always, confusingly, makes our skies even prettier.

you can watch a trailer for the film here. we cannot recommend it enough. 

caspar presented a range of poster ideas to kristina and after some discussion with ivo, they selected the direction you see here. the poster uses one of a series of photographs ivo had of himself, coupled with a hand-drawn, graphic treatment that reflected both ivo's tattoo aesthetic (as seen in his permanent tattoos and his additional, bespoke, body markings) and the film's overall message;  ivo asks his audiences during his live performances: "would you rather be in heaven with donald trump, or in hell with jesus christ?"

if you have the means do see this film. we cannot recommend it enough. watch the trailer here.

lucy explained the different ways she sees the work and what she believes it's about. caspar then sent her a series of treatments to illustrate the directions a poster could take. lucy chose the one you see here, which caspar then made entirely digitally. the design was constructed using the 2025 instagram profile grid's 3:4 aspect ratio as a fundamental building block.

the poster explores how much these kids see themselves through the lens of their own phones and online networks. it speaks to a subsequent insecurity in their own self image and how important that image is versus who they are as people. the poster is also a conscious nod to the work of samuel burgess-johnson and david rudnick, whose work caspar was studying at this time.

we watched the film and were immediately drawn to the material. soon we spoke to the film's director ketevan vasahagashvili and together came up with the idea for the poster you see here. 

the film is about a georgian single mother with a young daughter who becomes a surrogate mother in order to afford a home and provide for her family. the poster is in part a map of the damage done to the mother's body as a result of this way of life.

caspar made the poster with a printer, a scalpel, a needle, black thread, lights and a camera.

the film will have its world premiere at CPH:DOX this month and we cannot recommend seeing it enough. so if you have the means, do try. 

sujip is a short film about a man working his first day in a suicide helpline center. another man of the same age calls to share his desire to take his life and as the two men talk they slowly come to an understanding that deeply benefits them both.

once again the film tells the story of a family—a grandmother, a mother with child and her sister—trying to cross the border into colombia. the photography in the film is such a thing to behold that only upon a second viewing were we able to pay attention to the story.

this poster speaks about the nature of the family's border crossing in the film. caspar made it using a wig, printer, paper and glue.

his family, consisting of his mother and his deaf sister, are very close and supportive of maito's many successes as a dancer. in turn whilst maito is struggling with balancing his dancing career with his schooling, he is also attentive to his mother and sister's needs. it's a beautiful portrait of tokyo family life, and a wonderful record of a modern, street dancer in his prime. not least because of how the family all use sign-language to communicate with each other—for his sister's sake—and how beautifully this echoes maito's use of dance to do the same with others.

the film is called pasta negra. it tells the story of a family—a grandmother, a mother with child and her sister—trying to cross the border into colombia. the photography in the film is such a thing to behold that only upon a second viewing were we able to pay attention to the story.

we presented a range of ideas to jorge, and ended up making two posters for the film. the first poster you can see here, which—in homage to the beautiful collage work of najeebah al-ghadban—caspar made in the berlin studio with a wig, masking tape, a printer, paper, a knife and a camera.

the film was accepted into the sundance film festival whilst we were working on the poster. if you have the means we can't recommend seeing this film enough.

the film is called the heirloom and is a comedy set during the COVID 19 pandemic about a couple who decide to adopt a dog. ben plays the boyfriend in the couple who, also a filmmaker, decides to make a film within the film about them adopting the dog. the film is a wonderful piece of psychological self-analysis and we were keen to make a poster for it.

we presented a series of ideas and ben went with the one you see here. liza evseeva then painted the image just as you see it, and caspar took care of the layout and type.

after some discussion about how myrid wanted to communciate with people about her film, we presented a range of ideas for a poster. myrid chose the direction you see here, citing also particular painting styles that resonated with her. caspar then painted 24 portraits of myrid's mother, nuala, with acrylic paint, and presented the 9 best ones to myrid. together they then arranged the portraits in an order that suitably echoed the film's narrative. as a final touch myrid asked that we christen the poster by pouring a bottle of cider – her mother's chosen drink – all over it.

during the making of the poster the film was selected for IDFA. if you're headed to the festival, the film is well worth your time.

the film is beautiful, moving and difficult to watch. we were excited to make a poster for it. caspar and simon came up with the concept for the poster on the phone together, and then after a few rounds landed on the version you see here.

the film will have its world premiere at the 2024 montreal international documentary festival, where it will compete for the magnus isacsson award.

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.

the film depicts a couple living out their later years in a decrepit house in the french countryside. paul himself described the narrative as follows:

"the earth trembles, a donkey is on the loose and their house is falling down, yet the couple take it all in stride as they push through their daily lives in an isolated mountain valley. however even these stalwart villagers aren't immune to the rumbles of change that echo from both the outside world and from within themselves."

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. 

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.

we presented a series of ideas to sarah and after some discussion she went with the one you see here. sarah then took a photograph of lead-actor kathleen chalfant's hand and arm, and caspar used that image as a basis of a mixed-media painting. the poster, including its hand-painted lettering, was worked on in various countries, and finally finished in berlin.

during the making of the poster the film was selected for the 2024 venice film festival. do see it if you have the means.

in the process of putting together ideas for the poster caspar reached out and requested a collaboration with elena germain, whose work he'd admired for some time. thankfully elena was interested and she and caspar then worked together on developing ideas and in the creation of the poster itself. elena brought her particular skillset to the rich colouring and texturing of the piece. 

the film ended up winning the short film jury award at sundance 2024, and other awards since. do see it if you have the means, it's excellent.

the film is a tightly executed and moving chamber drama, with a startling solo performance from bethany anne lind. the narrative details a woman driving as fast as she can to try and stop her son from doing something horrifying. she reacts to phone calls and radio reports on the way, all the while slowly and understandably falling apart. 

the film's combination of frantic eyes in the rearview mirror and bullet hole-esque traffic light shots immediately gave us an array of ideas. we presented a series of poster concepts and maia asked us to develop the one you see here. caspar made the poster in the berlin studio, finishing it off by printing it onto carefully lit black paper, to give the final piece it's "headlights on the road at night" papery sheen.

we presented a range of ideas of ideas and shelly went with the one you see here. she mailed caspar the packet of korean cigarettes used in the film from los angeles, and he then photographed them with flowers sourced in berlin. the rest of the poster was built out from there, including a hand-distressed typographic treatment.

we pitched several ideas to ana and she went with the one you see here. caspar made it in berlin with flowers from local flower shops, all laid out on a light box and photographed. 

we presented a range of ideas. molly and ryan went with the approach you see here, that utilized a series of beautiful photographs taken on set by josh beavers. caspar created individual fashion advertisement-style posters for each of the five women in the film, and then photographed those posters with a sheet of bubble wrap over the top of them. the bubble wrap in each case was shot as it was being removed, leaving the poster (and thus the character) beneath exposed, vulnerable and without the protective layer that luxury previously afforded them.

we fell for the story and the aesthetic of the film immediately. after talking to faryl about her work we presented her with a range of different ways to approach a potential poster. faryl chose the "emotional road sign" idea you see here, itself an exercise in the complexities of california road sign design. caspar made the poster in the berlin studio with a laptop, printer, bright light and camera. 

the film premieres at the 2024 florida film festival. do see it if you have the means.

mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to ostkreuz train station in berlin for nearly a decade. the garden cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted. caspar made the poster in berlin after spending hours looking through the smithsonian institute's digital archives.

the film is dark. it left us breathless at times. we knew we had to somehow touch upon this darkness from the confines of HBO vetted artwork. we presented a range of ideas and amanda chose the one you see here.

caspar made the poster in berlin by printing out many photographs from amanda's family archive and arranging them across a larger print-out of amanda's face. this collage was then itself photographed.

you can watch a trailer for the film here.

to watch vfc you have to wear a headset. it's a headset that does two unusual things. it monitors your biofeedback and it plays audio. however it doesn't play audio through your ears, it plays audio into the bone of your skull. the reason the headset monitors your biofeedback is because vfc's soundtrack changes based on how you are physically reacting to the film. this means that for every person in the cinema vfc is different sonically, based on how the viewer feels about it visually.

conceptually the reason for offering such a unique soundtrack to the film is because the film's story is about a virus that is transmitted by audio into the minds of scientists at a research facility. as the virus spreads the various scientists in the film start to lose their mind. narratively similar in some ways to the plot of the film the thing, vfc offers an ineffable cinematic experience. for example imagine if you can those moments when the soundtrack to the film appears to jump from the cinema speakers into your head - the bone speakers in your headset making it feel like the sound virus is leaping physically inside you.

charles and caspar discussed at length ways of describing this experience with a poster. many ideas were on the table and in the end charles went with the image you see here. to capture the ear charles conducted a photoshoot in canada with the film's star elisapie. the rest of the poster was made in berlin by caspar with a printer, a scalpel, a bowl of water, a sponge, a desk and a camera.

we watched the film and were immediately taken by how smart and elegantly put together it was. shot on film, the piece captures the troubled yet somehow magical inner life of a teenage girl as she struggles with finding her own identity.

we suggested several ideas for the poster, and jimmy chose the one you see here. it involved printing out the "missing person" poster from the film and collaging it with a pencil drawing caspar made of the film's lead actress. the trick was that the drawing itself had to deliberately feel like the work of a teenage girl.

we presented a range of ideas and saim and apoorva asked us to the explore the one you see here. making the poster involved hand-drawing the floor tiles from the family home's inner courtyard, and then removing lotus flowers from this design to reveal the three main characters seemingly witnessing each other's indiscretions.

as a final touch, the blood of an animal slaughtered in their courtyard is smeared across a few of the remaining lotus flowers to provide a suggestive balance to the otherwise cheery name of the film.

we presented a few ideas and peter chose the one you see here. the decision to make two posters that seem to be looking at each other came during the design process. caspar made the two posters by scanning in various card folders from a local stationery shop, and then inserting photographs laura mccluskey had taken on the film's set inside them.

we presented a series of ideas for the poster and after much discussion hannah and daniel went with the one you see here. charlotte gosch and caspar photographed their own hands in various poses in order to re-create a more demonic cat's cradle than the one seen in the film. charlotte then did all the caligraphy using a pen and ink, and ripped the black hole in the middle of the poster. caspar then drew the cyclops.

the title design took a direct lead from the poster design. you can see a small sample of that the film's trailer here. 

the short tells the story of a conservative texas state senator who reconsiders his anti-abortion views after being forcibly surgically connected to a woman; a woman whom he must keep alive with his own body for nine months. it is inspired by the essay a defense of abortion by judith jarvis thompson. 

we presented a series of ideas for the poster and katy went with the one you see here.

the film is a remarkable piece of work. we watched it twice through the first time we sat with it. what you initially perceive to be one kind of film transforms into something entirely different as you watch it. the idea for the poster came very quickly to us on a call with lucy and her producer megan pickrell. the hard part was finding an old master painting we could use to successfully capture the treatment we were after. however when we stumbled upon the westwood children by joshua johnson we knew the search was over.

caspar made the poster in berlin with a printer, a scalpel and a camera. during the making of the poster the film was selected for the 2023 locarno film festival.

sarah gave us carte blanche to create any kind of poster we wanted for the film. we went for a poster that obliquely relates the film's narrative using collaged graphic elements traced from the film itself.

during the making of the poster the film won the grand prix du jury at the champs-élysées film festival.

we presented several ideas to the production team and the 5 posters you see here collectively represent the final chosen concept. creation of the work involved caspar printing and posting flyers around the city of berlin, and then returning to them later to photograph them. 

during the making of the poster the film won the visions du réel burning lights jury prize and the international critic award.

we watched the film and immediately fell in love with its discussion of history, memory, the stories we tell and why, and the nature of truth. pretty soon we were talking to the film's director elan golod and devising ways we could talk about this film in poster format. we presented a range of ideas and ultimately landed on the poster you see here, which was made with a laser printer, some thick paper, a scalpel, a scanner and a camera. 

the film tells the story of nathan hilu a jewish american man who was a prison guard at the nuremberg trials at the end of world war 2. the poster in return talks about the three different nathan's we see in the film - the young nathan, the old nathan and the nathan depicted in the drawings he made in remembrance of his time in nuremberg. the latter nathan, as the poster in part suggests, was a figure whose history was very much influenced by the older nathan's ageing mind. 

our approach here is in part an homage to the great work of swedish artists inka and niclas lindergard. it was created by taking a photograph of a light source with grease smeared on the camera lens. the effect was then overlayed on a behind the scenes photograph from the film.

we watched their beautiful and moving piece of work and immediately had a very clear idea of what the poster should be. liza evseeva did the figure painting and caspar took care of the rest of the type and layout.

maret is an excellent film. it tells the story of an artist who quite suddenly loses the last 20 years of her memory. she then, after reacquainting herself with close friends, discovers that she might not be so interested in returning to the kind of person she used to be. 

we presented a series of concepts to laura and she chose the one you see here. we made it using photoshop, a printer, a scalpel blade and a camera. 

the film is about a college freshman trying to impress an older girl during a slew of sorority hazing rituals. we dug the film and presented a handful of concepts we felt might be apt. chaconne chose the idea you see here. we made the poster using jello, a refrigerator, a large ceramic baking dish, a bathtub of hot water, a knife, a large format printer, an SLR camera and LED lights.

the poster was made in photoshop and then printed out using a large format printer. we then ripped the poster in half and scanned it back in again against a black backdrop.

caspar had the following to say about making this poster:

after watching their radical film, we presented a range of ideas, and the collage approach you see here was one that laura gravitated toward. after trying 3-4 different collages of both stills from the film and behind the scenes photographs, we landed on the one you see here. 

we started with the film's titles, and then moved onto the poster. we presented a series of ideas for the poster and taylor went with what you see here. caspar painted the image on the poster using black ink on paper and then scanned it in. he then laid out the rest of the poster from there, leaving in the slight tilt on the image introduced by the scanner because it echoed the intensely hand-held nature of the film .

we had already made the titles for the film and so knew it well. we presented a series of ideas for the poster and kevin immediately went with the idea you see here. soon we were printing out the type onto large pieces of paper and sand papering it by hand. 

we watched this beautiful film a few times and then presented a series of ideas for the poster. matthew and derik then selected the one you see here. hand painted in black ink on paper, the poster will be available as a print with a series of different background colours.

caspar painted the image of the cigarette smoke marias using a brush and black ink, and then scanned it in and inverted it for the poster.

the film has since won the 2023 cesar award for best short documentary. 

the poster you see here is one of two we made in support of the film. caspar had the following to say about making this particular poster:

the poster was made with a printer, a sponge, a bowl of water and a camera.

in order to make the poster we took a hammer to an iphone and photographed it in various stages of its collapse. the poster was then designed proportionately to the phone in order to look like the film's blind protagonist was peering, not just through a crack in a door, but also through a phone screen. such is the film's narrative. 

we talked on the phone for a while, throwing various ideas around. the moment we mentioned this idea of making a still life with two pears, peeled, drenched and positioned as if they were having sex, jake said that was it. soon we were buying and peeling heaps of pears, and photographing the scene you see here on the poster. 

it's a great film. if you have the means, do watch it via the link below. 

once the idea was established gillian asked lee jameson to take some photos of her brandishing a knife. we took it from there, processing the images and the type, and then collaging small fragments of other posters over her.

after printing our design out, we submerged the paper in water and photographed it whilst rippling the water with our hands. of the various exposures we captured, this one seemed to illustrate best the (sometimes dancing, sometimes swimming) figures in a landscape that the film so beautifully presented us with. 

reid's film immediately struck us as unique in its point of view, aesthetic and intention. in talking to him on the phone we agreed upon the poster concept you see here. we then asked reid to send some photographs of himself in his wheelchair. we printed these photos out on card, cut out reid's silhouette from the card, and took photographs of the shadow it cast on the wall.

it was during our discussions with mattias that we came up with an idea that we felt captured the film's narrative and tone. not long after that he was taking some photographs for us in montreal, canada. where the film was made. the still life images he captured we then turned onto the poster you see here.

caspar made the poster by printing out a still from the film, folding it up in an accordion fashion, lighting it and then photographing it. 

the poster is our attempt to talk about the delicate and beautiful relationship at the core of the film. 

you can watch the trailer for the film here.

the poster was made with a combination of elements. the first being a photoshoot sam conducted himself with tia the lizard who co-stars in the film. the second being an egg caspar fried in his studio in berlin.

our poster and title treatment reflect the stark modernism in laine's conceptual and visual approach to the opera. of particular note here is the typography. splitting the film's title up into four segments gave us an opportunity to speak about the four separate acts in the opera. on top of that the squared-off typeface used in combination with this formation echoes abstractly the windows of the various apartments within the same building that the opera was set.

mirko wanted us to design a poster and some film titles for the film. we were entranced by the images in the film and moved greatly by the story of these often forgotten people. we presented a range of ideas and mirko went with this handmade, rather more experimental design you see here. it's a poster we feel talks about generations of sindhi people flowing like a river through time; a river like the great indus river upon the bank of which the sindhis first appeared.

we presented a series of concepts for the poster. dean immediately went for the idea you see here as he felt it captured the feeling of his film best. caspar took the photograph used for the poster in his bedroom in new york city.

the second poster was a more direct and obvious interpretation of the film, offering a slightly altered mise-en-scene still as a way of tackling the film's psychological themes.

we presented stanislav with a few directions the poster could take, and he chose the typographic idea you see here. the poster focuses on the plethora of feral dogs and children scattered throughout the landscapes in the film, and weaves these figures in and around the letters that make up the name of the place. each letter standing there, decrepit, like the domestic structures in tábor itself.

the film is beautifully directed and photographed and is particularly insightful and moving. do see it if you have the means. 

in this case tim suggested using a caravaggio painting and we took it from there. caspar's father thomas newbolt then suggested we use caravaggio's painting of salome with the head of john the baptist. tim agreed and sent the funny face mask used in the film to caspar in europe. caspar then lit the mask with similar lighting to the caravaggio painting and photographed it. the rest of the work from there on out is self-evident. 

caspar made the poster in the new york studio. it was inspired by david hockney's photographic collages. 

jeff photographed the film's lead actress claire coffee at one end of our studio, whilst caspar photographed wet blocks of lego in a tub at the other end. not long after the two were combined.

when the images arrived of this beautiful boy in lipstick we applied a typographic treatment to them, and then had them printed very large on waterproof paper. we then bought a huge plastic tub, took it back to the studio and filled it with water. then, with the assistance of photographer and long-time collaborator jeff brown, we shot photographs of the photographs, literally underwater, whilst splashing around with our hands in order to distort the image and the text. the result is perhaps the most organic piece of design work we've ever produced.

the film's titles and poster were also designed by caspar.

the second poster included here is based on an idea that tim had, and is an image that - whilst not wanting to spoil the story for anyone - will resonate particularly well with those that have seen the film. 

caspar made the poster in the new york studio using a laser printer and a flatbed scanner. 

wonderfully the poster ended up winning the SXSW excellence in poster design award.

development of the project took some years. the end result, shot in new york city and starring james ransone, you can see here. a testament to the band and everyone else involved, the film pays homage to many of the things that inspired us to do the work we do today.

the first task was to screen-record a sequence where the film's protagonist plans a trip through town using google maps. into this sequence caspar then composited photographs he'd taken on set of two cast members on skateboards.

the second task was the printing and placing into a cinema lightbox on set of the film's actual poster. this meta sequence can be seen in the film's startling denouement. 

we also handled website and title sequence design duties on the film.

the film, starring james franco, ed harris, amber heard, christian slater and timothee chalamet, had various clear themes that made it a relatively easy one to create a poster for. we presented a series of ideas to pamela and joseph and they went with the idea you see here.

the film was sold to A24 films after the tribeca film festival premiere. 

if you have the means we recommend watching the film. it really has its moments. 

you can read more about the making of the posters here.

you can purchase a physical copy of this poster here.