Movies at the Warhol
The Warhol’s film and video curators are bringing amazing films to Pittsburgh—it’s just that not enough people know about them. We’ve worked with the Warhol to develop several print pieces to try and change that.
And some of those haven’t been easy.
For example, they put together an evening program featuring filmmaker William E. Jones’ 56 minutes of found police surveillance footage that featured men engaging in public sex in a restroom in Mansfield, Ohio in 1962. The program also included a panel discussion on the issues raised by the footage, which was collected without the knowledge of its participants and led to jail terms for many who were charged with sodomy.
What we did
You can probably imagine what was going through our minds when we were given this brief. A fantastic program, no doubt, but what would the flyer look like? Would we use images, and what of?
We were fortunate to have access to a small collection of stills from the police surveillance film, and a few of those were, um, suitable to distribute. The feature still we selected pictured a man in the restroom looking, though unknowingly, in the direction of the hidden police camera. While it was a low-resolution image, the grainy look conjures up just the right feel for the themes the flyer promoted.
Other projects
The diversity of the films shown at the Warhol means we need to be up for anything—and we are. After the postcard that featured a still from Dead Alive (a ghoul bursting through someone’s face), we created a brochure for the George Eastman House series. A 180-turn from exploding faces, we got to play around with lush stills of stunning actors like Louise Brooks to create a guide to promote silent and early sound films.
- AIA Build Pittsburgh 2009
- AIA Design Pittsburgh 2008
- Creative Nonfiction redesign
- Cultural Trust education program
- Market Square calendar
- Quantum Theatre Season 2008–09
- Quantum Theatre season 2009–10
- School of Engineering campaign
- Warhol film & video projects
- Warhol museum brochure
- Warhol Sound Series
- WYEP Year in Review 2008 and 2009
