On the posters of the 61st Krakow Film Festival, we 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 of designs consists of several dozen pairs of characters, who are the embodiment of the personal, close relationship between the director and the protagonist of the film.
It is the quality of this relationship that influences the final shape of the film. A distinct protagonist, a powerful subject, a fascinating story can also eclipse 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.
The meetings of the audience with the makers of the festival films are also an extremely important element of the event. In the previous years, the duo of the designers systematically based their designs of the Festival posters on the contents of the festival films. They created bold compositions, using unevident film frames, accurately selected film quotes, provocative dialogues or the film titles themselves, written in their original languages, often from the exotic countries where these films were produced.
The individual elements of the identification often formed an extremely cohesive whole with the place where they were exposed and generate a new, independent, sometimes funny and sometimes controversial, context. Jakub de Barbaro Born in in Krakow, a designer specialising in graphic design for the publishing industry and visual identity.
The co-founder of the artist co-operative Goldex Poldex and Szalona Galeria A former lecturer at Raffles Design Institute in Shanghai. He co-operates mainly with cultural institutions in Poland and abroad. He specialises in graphic design for the publishing industry and co-operates mainly with cultural institutions and publishing houses. The Krakow Film Festival is included on the prestigious list of film events qualifying for the Academy Awards in the short film competition feature film, animated film, documentary film and feature-length documentary film, and it also recommends the films to the European Film Awards in the same categories.
