I worked closely with Metrograph Pictures to design a poster reminiscent of the 1969 release of the film Duet for Cannibals. The end result was an homage to the original 1969 poster with director Susan Sontag front and center with the cast in her hand. Duet For Cannibals was later released on Blu-ray and DVD through Kino Lorber.
Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism, and introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker.
Buy DVD/Blu-Ray Here
Buy DVD/Blu-Ray Here
Above: Official art.
Below: The original 1969 poster by an unnamed artist as well as various other directions the poster went into.
Below: The Blu-ray and dvd release for home video, distributed by Kino Lorber.
https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/3894