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afufu_film poster

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poster for the short film, afufu.
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our friend ellie foumbi reached out and asked that we make a poster for a short film she'd recently made with netflix and the support of cate blanchett's production company, dirty films. 

the film is called afufu. it tells the story of a day in the life of an african housemaid, grace, who works for and lives with a wealthy, white, american family. the family's home has become a veritable museum of african artworks and these, combined with the intimate moments she's been stealing with the father, of course make grace feel objectified herself. when grace accidentally breaks one of the african sculptures—afufu—on display, conflict ensues. the film questions where the lines of cultural appropriation are these days – can the owners see through their own acts of misperceived benevolence and cultural celebration to the harm they are in fact doing? similarly can grace come to terms with why she feels she's surperior to her family back home?

caspar presented a series of directions the poster could take, and ellie went with this one. 
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imdb.com/title/tt35355757
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hell's army_film poster

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poster for the feature documentary, hell's army.
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producer rebecca teitel asked if we might make a poster for hell's army, a film she had produced and that had been selected for the documentary festival, CPH:DOX.

the film takes the form of a piece of investigative journalism about the rise and fall of yevgeny prigozhin, founder of the illegal, russian state-funded, ultraviolent, private militia company, the wagner group. the narrative follows a russian journalist, katya, who reveals the groups' existence after several of her colleagues are murdered by them. the film is delivered in a particularly well crafted, cinematic and sympathetic fashion, and we were immediately interested in making a poster to support it.

after a connversation with the film's director richard rowley, we set about presenting to him and his team a series of directions the poster could take. they selected the one you see here, itself a visual play on the film's over-arching narrative.

caspar made the poster in berlin with a laptop and a photograph richard provided. the poster is an homage to and an evolution of the fantastic works of cuban postermaker, luis vega de castro, and scottish poet, edwin morgan. the russian text was translated to fit the concept by mina munarova.
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imdb.com/title/tt39830102
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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 took a photo of jessica hecht's smiling face and made a piece of ascii art out of it. he then placed different sized grave stones, tree stumps or tufts of grass—by hand—over each corresponding character in the ascii art. 

you can watch the film here.
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nobudge.com/dead-serious
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