City Film Posters
When my father died in 2001, my mother would give my brother and I some money every Sunday to go to the movies and every Sunday we were transported into a magical place lit with dreams (with Popcorn and chocolate candy with sugar sprinkles) and momentarily pushed aside the darkness. Movies became my Sunday Service, going to the movies is an almost religious experience. You enter a dark grotto, or cathedral of red velvet, and the world like an ancient mystery pops up on the far wall. We live our lives in Plato's Allegory of the Cave, but in the theater we give in to the Shadows of the Cave and for a few hours the shadows dance, the lights are lifted and your are reborn. Movie Posters are the gateway to that experience, to that story, much like the icons in the Roman and Eastern Orthodox idea of icons: symbols standing in for the story you are about to engage in. Proper Movie Posters should provide a simulacrum of the story, but more often than not portray the celebrity attached to the story, e.g. "floating heads."