Starting Monday, May 28th Wonders in the Dark will be hosting a 12 day Allan Fish Online Film Festival (Allan Fish OFF 2018). The rules are simple; each day will see a new chairman host the festivities and select a film that is available to be watched by anyone, online for free from a popular streaming site (youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, etc.). The host for that day will decide how the film they chose will be presented; an essay, a sparse teaser introduction, or ‘other’ (the creativity seen on the blogosphere for film commentary knows no bounds as we all know). Thus, conceivably the film festival could be nearly real; people anywhere on the globe watching the same film, at roundabout the same time. It’s named in honor of our dear friend and film scholar Allan Fish, whose birthday was May 28th, and will be an annual event, with this years being the second one. He found so many of his treasured Obscuro’s doing just what we’re setting out to do with this Festival, so it seemed the most fitting way to remember him.
Like last year, I’ve also designed the identity of the Festival, this time with a vibrant, almost Jean-Luc Godard approach to the type and color (especially the iconic look of many of his mid 1960’s masterworks, most specifically Pierrot Le Fou), with additional graphic nods to the nature of streaming films online. Here we get digital pixilation and browser window video players doing much of the visual heavy lifting of our logo, which in turn, forms the basis for our poster. I hope you like the clean, quick read of the graphics. As was the case last year, I’ve again chosen bright colors, as a small irony to Allan’s, shall we say, ‘un-cheery’ nature.
As was the case last year, if anyone would like a printable PDF of the poster—there are actually two variations this year, which the one above being the ‘official’ one—you just need to respond to this post in the comment thread with your email address. This years poster is roughly 11 inches by 19.5 inches.
We look forward to again hosting this, and remembering our supreme cineaste friend!
Fantastic introduction, graphics and sponsorship in every sense here Jamie!
Let the games begin!!! 🙂
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***Starting on Monday, an event to look out for!
That’s a good poster.
Greatly looking forward to the second annual AFOFF!!
Good Luck! It has started out extremely well!