The 40th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival poster unveiled
We are pleased to share with you today the beautifully colored poster for the 40th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, which will take place from February 2 to 10, 2018.
The image of this year’s Festival has been designed by Antoine Lopez and Isabelle Pio, better known under the nickname « Bologo ». They are behind several posters of the festival, in particular those of 1990 (the suitcase), 1995 (the moon) and 2000 (the berlingots). Antoine Lopez, who is also one of the founding members of the festival is at the origin of the initiative to entrust the creation of the poster to illustrators coming from different horizons, he alone created those of the first editions (1979 – the irons, 1981 – the rabbit-film roll, 1982 – the cinema armchair, 1983 – the filmsmith, 1986- the projectionist juggler).
Here is his comment about the poster:
“Short Films Under Your Skin.
The poster for the 40th edition of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival was built around two main ideas.
The first was the idea of a homage to theater projectionists. Those are the celluloid men and women, the men and women of the dormer window who busy themselves in the darkness of their control rooms so that the show can come to light, burning brighter and brighter.
The second idea is a nod to the preceding thirty-nine editions. Anniversaries are always occasions to pause and look back at the road we’ve travelled.
We should also say a word about the logotype that is projected on the hand, representing the number forty. It is composed of the plus-sign, a 1 and a 0. In other words, the 40th edition marks the border between film and digital. Our nostalgia for the former should not stifle the other’s prospects for even greater innovations in the art of the short form.
So in the end, we look backward to take stock of Festivals past and look forward to imagining the thousand and one short films shown by our magicians of shadow and light.
It was very exciting to work with Isabelle Pio on the poster for the 40th edition, so many years after making the one for year 1 (back in 1979). In fact, for this first glimpse of the 2018 edition, we invite everyone who has short films and the Festival under their skin to look closely at the tattoos and find the details that correspond to each of the thirty-nine preceding Festival posters. While you wait, naturally, for next February to come around… and discover a secret surprise on the 30×40 printed version of the poster.”
So, will you find the details from the posters of the previous 39 editions?
