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Film Festival | International Congress, Basel

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Creator Fritz Bühler
Printing year 1945
Sheet size (cm) 127×90
Printing technique Lithograph
Printer Wassermann
Condition A-
Asking price 3'700 CHF
Categories Fairs | Festivals | Zoo, Music | Movies | Theatre

Is there anything more clichéd than to use a film reel or a film strip on a poster associated with movies? No, Fritz Bühler thought, and created as early as 1945 one of the – if not the – first great film festival poster. His pixellated duotone close-up of an eye for the Film Festival Congrès International in Basel is in so far very special as it’s easy to grasp from afar but difficult to recognize at close range.