nevermindthebolex: I meant to post this last week, indeed awesome.
“These are pretty awesome.
In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.
In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies.
See some more of them here.”
These are the most interesting movie poster re-imaginings I have seen since the Polish ones that were making rounds a few years back. I think the fact that with some these the person hasn’t even seen the film, makes them even better.
Posted by Ksen.
