I felt really excited when it was done, I had to go for a long walk to calm down. I have the attention span of a Ritalin-deprived gnat so going from starting the DVD to finishing the poster 3 hours later was perfect for me. I did get really excited about the idea while I was doing it. I'm not even sure if there's any need to actually print the thing now really.
I think the ensuing brouhaha bears that out. The decision-making process took about 40 seconds to be honest. I think I said something like "I think I'll just put a pair of rusty scissors on there," and he laughed. I just want something Polish," and that was pretty much the extent of the discussion. Andrew Mackie (from Transmission) called me the day before I was going on holiday and said "I know you've got no time, so go crazy. Well we didn't really want to go down the 'story' route, and I will do practically anything to avoid the 'actor' poster, so it was simply a question of stepping back and taking the one thing that everyone has heard about Antichrist, and making that into the sell. What moved you to use the scissors as the focal point in your key art? The scissors, of course, tap into a controversial moment in the film. I recommend engineering something similar if you have even the slightest inclination, Matthew. It's quite something, to have someone apologise for your work on behalf of the nation. My favourite reaction was on a blog somewhere where the commenter apologised to everyone “on behalf of Australia” for this "offensive poster".
#Interview with the antichrist movie free series#
My website got overloaded and crashed, I was getting job offers via twitter and I got subjected to a series of DDOS attacks from some Christian hackers. I turned on my (laptop) a few days later from a hotel in Palm Springs, and was inundated with emails and posts and pings and requests for interviews and information and you name it. I was away on holiday when someone sort-of nicked it from my Facebook page and it spread like wildfire through the web. What type of reactions - positive or negative - have you received since its release?Īn incredible wave of generally positive stuff really.
Your key art for Antichrist has hit a nerve.
The following is an interview with Jeremy, who kindly took time out from his busy schedule to talk about that Antichrist poster, his work and influences. His latest, the devastatingly provocative key art design for Lars von Trier’s controversial Antichrist, set the web afire upon its release. Jeremy Saunders is a UK born, Sydney based key art designer, responsible for some of the most memorable movie posters in recent memory. An interview with Jeremy Saunders, the man behind the Australian key art design for Antichrist.