Czech Film Poster

チェコ映画ポスター / 1950s–1980s / Style / Regional Graphics

Turns film promotion into independent interpretation through collage, fantastical rendering and experimental letters.

Czech Film Poster — Poster for the Czechoslovak film Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni, 1969 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE
Poster for the Czechoslovak film Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni, 1969 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE
Czech Film Poster — Poster for the Czechoslovak film Nevera po slovensky, 1980 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE
Poster for the Czechoslovak film Nevera po slovensky, 1980 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE
Czech Film Poster — チェコスロバキア映画《Dovidenia v pekle, priatelia》ポスター — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE
チェコスロバキア映画《Dovidenia v pekle, priatelia》ポスター — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Jakubisko Film Europe, SE

At a glance

Visual cues

  • Surreal collage
  • Drawn letters
  • Symbols
  • Transformed photography

Best used for

  • Film announcements where you interpret the work instead of using supplied stills
  • Promoting stories of fantasy or unease through transformed photography

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Dictionary entry

Type
Drawn titles stretched or crushed with the same distortion as the image
Composition
Join fragments at different scales so the eye gathers on one symbol
Material
Cut printed photographs, painted additions, replaced colors, seams left visible
Caution
The more strange combinations you add, the more the focus scatters, until neither the film nor your reading of it comes across.
Further study
Czechoslovak film posters / Josef Vyleťal / Zdeněk Ziegler

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