PROCESS / FORMAT—LAMBDA DIGITAL PRINT ON BACKLIT DURATRANS PLASTIC. OUTLINE ELEMENTS AND SHOWTIMES + THEATRE INFO HAND-DRAWN IN BLACK MARKER ON FINISHED PRINT. SIZE—430MM X 1020MM : QUANTITY—3 X 50 : DATE—04 / 2005 PUBLICATION—GRAFIK, PROMOTIONAL ITEMS, ONEHUNDREDAT360, COUPE DESIGN ANNUAL, LOS LOGOS 4, 1000 FONTS, LOGO DESIGN 2. AWARD—COUPE DESIGN ANNUAL. |
DESCRIPTION—CONTEMPORARY WITH THE STUDENT RIOTS IN PARIS DURING THE LATE 60S, IF.... IS A FILM THAT EXAMINES BRITISH CLASS STRUCTURE, TRADITION AND DISCIPLINE IN THE CONTEXT OF A BOARDING SCHOOL AND THREE OF ITS REBELLIOUS STUDENTS WHO FAIL TO CONFORM. COMIC AND TRAGIC AT THE SAME TIME, THE FILM TACKLES THE ISSUE OF JUSTICE WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CONFINES OF SOCIETAL NORMS. THE POSTER (PROMOTION AS PART OF THE CINEMA'S SPECIAL SCREENING SERIES) WAS DESIGNED TO REFLECT THIS IN ITS USE OF A PEACE DOVE AS META-NARRATIVE IN CONTRAST WITH THE CALL-TO-ARMS QUOTES FROM THE FILM'S CENTRAL REBELLIOUS CHARACTERS. PART TWO OF A THREE PART SPECIAL SCREENING SERIES FEATURING POLITICALLY CHARGED AUTEUR FILMS FROM THE SIXTIES. MASCULIN/FEMININ DEALS WITH THE STRUGGLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A POLITICALLY AWARE YOUTH AND HIS ASPIRING POP STAR GIRLFRIEND. THE POSTER FEATURES A KEY QUOTE FROM THE FILM SET AGAINST A BUBBLE-GUM CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN AND A META-NARRATIVE IMAGE OF A TEDDY BEAR SPORTING A GAS MASK. THE TEDDY BEAR SYMBOLOGY WAS CHOSEN TO REPRESENT MILITANCY BECAUSE OF THEIR USE BY CONTEMPORARY PROTESTORS WHO FLING THEM AT AUTHORITIES IN PLACE OF MOLOTOV COCKTAILS. THE POSTER ALSO FEATURES AN ALL-STENCIL TYPESET, INCLUDING THE HAND-APPLIQUE SHOW TIMES. RAY BRADBURY'S DISTURBING NOVEL OF A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE SOCIETY WHERE BOOKS ARE BANNED WAS BROUGHT TO FILM FORM BY FRENCH DIRECTOR FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT IN 1966. FIRE PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE FILM AS FIREMEN IN THE FUTURE DO NOT PUT OUT FIRES BUT RATHER START THEM BY BURNING BOOKS. THIS PROMOTIONAL POSTER FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING SERIES FEATURES A NOTEBOOK STYLE PATTERNING UNDERLAY WITH A KEY QUOTE FROM THE FILM; THE MOTTO OF THE FIREMEN "...AND THEN WE BURN THE ASHES". © 2013. |
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