2021 poster for The Golem: How He Came into the World (Paul Wegener & Carl Boese, Germany, 1920). Art by Johan Brosow.
This gorgeous new poster for the 101 year old German expressionist silent film The Golem is the product of a lovely new endeavor by the Swedish distribution company NonStop Entertainment.
In 2015 NonStop, perhaps the premier arthouse distributor in the Nordic region, launched a sister label, NonStop Timeless, to release their hundreds of repertory classics ranging from Dreyer to Lanthimos. Last year, in the early days of the pandemic, they decided to commission some of Sweden’s foremost artists, photographers, and designers to do their own take on a classic of their choice from the NonStop Timeless collection. The six artists selected chose seven films between them (interestingly, four of the seven were German silents). The posters were printed in limited quantities on non-glossy paper in the Swedish cinema poster format of 70 x 100cm (very close to the US 27" x 40" standard) and were unveiled last week at Rönnells antiquarian bookstore in Stockholm where they were signed by the artists.
If you want to see more work by any of these artists their Instagram accounts are linked in their credits below.
Above: 2021 poster for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920). Art by Alba Lange.
Above: 2021 poster for Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, Germany, 1922). Art by Johan Brosow.
Above: 2021 poster for Pandora’s Box (G.W. Pabst, Germany, 1929). Art by Luc Grapengiesser.
Above: 2021 poster for Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, Japan, 1964). Art by Kolbeinn Karlsson.
Above: 2021 poster for Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, Germany, 1972). Art by Aron Mattsson.
Above: 2021 poster for The New York Ripper (Lucio Fulci, Italy, 1982). Art by Anders Muammar.
See Anders Muammar’s Instagram post for photos of the event. I’m assured that there will be a second round of NonStop Timeless posters next year and I can’t wait. Watch this space.
Many thanks to Jakob Abrahamsson at NonStop.