On the posters of the 61st Krakow Film Festival, you can see the portraits of men and women directors, whose faces are covered by the pieces of film frames, showing the protagonists turned towards them. The figures seem to look at each other. The series consists of several dozen pairs, who are the embodiment of the personal, close relationship between the director and the protagonist. It is the quality of this relationship that influences the final shape of the film.
Our idea points the very person of the film-maker, who takes the role of a focused observer, a mysterious companion, a discreet confidant or an invisible demiurge. Interestingly, the Krakow Film Festival is one of the few that awards the directors.
On the posters we cannot see the faces, what also illustrate the present time of the pandemic, the compulsory isolation and the face masks covering us, which means that we cannot know the appearance of the newly met people.
design: Jakub DeBarbaro & Kuba Sowiński
All directors' portraits used in this project, were attached to the festival submission by themselves.
design: Jakub DeBarbaro & Kuba Sowiński
All directors' portraits used in this project, were attached to the festival submission by themselves.
