63rd New York Film Festival Poster by RaMell Ross

Official posters for the 63rd New York Film Festival—designed by artist, writer, and filmmaker RaMell Ross, director of the NYFF62 Opening Night film Nickel Boys—are available now for pre-order, exclusively at Posteritati. Artist posters are a yearly artistic signature of NYFF, and Ross joins a stellar lineup of renowned artists who have contributed their work to the festival since 1963, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Saul Bass, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, Pedro Almodóvar, Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, and Jim Jarmusch.

Ross: "After compartmentalizing the shock of being asked to join the intimidating list of artists who took on this honor, 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."

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