Banner competition

[sally]

we're not going to find one screenshot that unifies us are we? instead we prefer something that abnegates images. oh well. so be it.

[Silga]

So far, I like this one the most.

[rischka]

thanks! it's abel gance's j'accuse!

[Senor Arkadin]

I vote for one banner representing one letter of SCFZ in rotating order every month. If we're going to be a pretentious circle jerk, I want to go full boar. First month: S(okurov), Second month: C(imino), Third Month: (F)euillade, Fourth Month: Z(ulawski)... Fifth Month S(ono), etc. The longer we go without having to repeat a filmmaker, the more pretentious street cred we earn for ourselves. We can always degrade into film titles, or obscure references within the frame too. That we we have a permanent game... trying to see how the banner connects to the letter as we disappear further and further down the rabbit hole of our own meta-content.

[Zulawski]

I thought about the "what if God created the cat in his image?" scene from Resnais' Je t'aime Je t'aime, but it's gonna be too squeezed out. We're essentially ruling out 4:3 format films. I'll make a Pialat suggestion soon, however. I'm not sure about the font, though.

[pabs]

I like rischka's too.

[sally]

We like the bound dead woman? Figures.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Cuz she's got a Halo! Saintly!

[kanafani]

My vote is for Three Landscapes.

[rischka]

whatever i'll make another one. i just like the look of the silents

i've got literally hundreds of usable screenshots

[rischka]

2 for l'herbier's l'inhumaine



garrel's le révélateur



sry i used to make skins at flixster and didn't realize how much i missed it

[rischka]

some other ideas



david holzman's diary



epstein six et demi onze -- this one might be my favorite?

[brian d]

i like the epstein.

[---]

my ranking probably goes:

1. 3 landscapes
2. j'accuse
3. epstein

[thoxans]

i vote eps but interchangeable would be the superchampiest

[thoxans]

Figures.

[flip]

i like most of the ones rischka posted, though the epstein isn't one of my favourites. most of them look amazing tho

also like a couple of others

[pabs]

I hadn't even noticed the woman's hands were bound until it was pointed out. I liked that pic because it looked dreamy, like someone dreaming, and films are similar to dreams.

[Brotherdeacon]

I like everything except cats, maybe I lean a little more toward an experimental film tie-in rather than film-festival winner stuff. Like the color-blind font and pantone. To quote Jesus on his little donkey, "Hell, I like everything."

[Brotherdeacon]

We like the bound dead woman? Figures.

Yes, but she's not naked and bleeding--we're progressing.

[Forty40]

Any examples of what we definetly wouldn't be going with? I'm just trying to fine tune my selection process.

[Lencho of the Apes]

In honor of our lo-fi heritage, and in memory of Jiri, I'll repurpose a still from a movie I'm working on, that may be called Bagel/Bagel.

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[Lencho of the Apes]

FWIW, the dimensions of the empty banner box are 1328 x 207.

[sally]

What happened to jiri?????????

[rischka]

FWIW, the dimensions of the empty banner box are 1328 x 207.

hmm that's gonna make a difference

[rischka]

on the other hand i could shrink and put multiple images across. hmm i'll think about this.

i wanna see more people contributing to this thread. jiri would have some fantastic ideas i bet

[Lencho of the Apes]

What happened

Oops, poor choice of words. "In hommage to Jiri" might be better. Nothing happened, he just ghosted away. AFAIK, his blog is still active.

[rischka]

histoire(s) du cinema this will be my last entry. unless i have a brainstorm lol. wanna give other people a chance

[patrick]

this a winner

[thoxans]

i like the one without scfz written on it. if we want scfz written on it, then i think we'd need six images, so that scfz can be centered in the middle four images