A poster for an independent auteur ANIMATED short film for young adults, tender and funny with real loss underneath, the kind that wins at Annecy or Ottawa, with the attitude of an A24 film, designed by a great graphic designer. ONE single impossible image treated with complete seriousness and ONE bold dominant colour that covers most of the poster as a flat colour field. The whole poster is a 2D ANIMATION still made in two-colour risograph in lilac and tomato red, grainy, with misregistration; the hand-made texture is clearly visible. Characters with an auteur design: odd proportions, long noses and long necks, dot eyes, asymmetry, never big eyes, never cute, never anime or Pixar. IMAGE: a flat lilac bedroom floor seen from above: two teenage best friends with long necks lie head to head inside one enormous red sleeping bag that stretches across the whole floor like a road, whispering, on their last night before one of them moves to another country. Simple bold composition, lots of empty space. TYPOGRAPHY: at the top, small spaced-out capitals: "A FILM BY ARANTXA BARCIA". The title hand-lettered in the same style: "SLEEPOVER". At the bottom, small: "OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL" and a line of small credits. No brand names, no signs, no logos, no readable writing in the image. All text perfectly spelled, crisp and legible, with a generous margin from every edge of the poster. Lots of negative space.
