Expulsion from Paradise

An inspiring memory of our first collaboration with director Věra Chytilová (her first film that we worked on was “Kopytem sem kopytem tam”). The director wanted a beautiful, artistically rendered poster to go with her video-camera film. She had a very clear idea of what she wanted right from the beginning – a poster in the style of Dutch Masters of the 16th century. A night scene complete with fires that, however, was far from typical of the actual film. We went to the editing room. We wanted to have a look at the material and realised that the film was rather crude in appearance. Shot on video. I had a completely different idea of what the poster should be like. We argued for a while and each was pushing for own ideas. I finally gave in and promised to try both. I wanted to use digital stills from the movie. Everything had to be done very quickly. The director called the next day and surprisingly was interested in just the “digi” version.

2001