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| RaMell Ross: “The poster consolidates two ontological image perspectives, one from point of view and another from a security camera” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze |
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that RaMell Ross is the designer of the 63rd New York Film Festival poster. He joins an esteemed lineup that contributed their work to the festival, including David Byrne, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Laurie Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cindy Sherman, Saul Bass, Pedro Almodóvar, John Waters, Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, Ed Lachman and JR, Richard Serra, and Jim Jarmusch, whose latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother (shot by Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, starring Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Indya Moore, Vicky Krieps, Luka Sabbat, and Charlotte Rampling) is the Centerpiece Gala selection.
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| 63rd New York Film Festival poster designed by RaMell Ross |
RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys (starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) was the Opening Night Gala selection of last year’s New York Film Festival.
RaMell Ross on his design: “After compartmentalising the shock of being asked to join the intimidating list of artists who took on this honour, I looked for guidance, of course, from my world line, the always giving epic-banal, and the unfulfillable desire for images of their own volition, images of their own free will.
“And so, the poster consolidates two ontological image perspectives, one from point of view and another from a security camera, both from my 24-hour performance piece, America(n) Jumps The Gator. As the New York Film Festival acts in many ways as an expression of our times, the language of the poster sprouts from the idea of photograph and film as an almost spiritual, meta mode of knowledge production, not unlike a spell, prayer, medicine or poison, or piece of legislation, though, as ineffable as the sensation of deja vu.”
The 63rd New York Film Festival runs from Friday, September 26 through Monday, October 13.
