POSTERS THAT
REFUSE TO
BEHAVE

An archive of experimental film posters. Misregistered cyan, heavy grain, and type that looks like it got printed in a basement after midnight.

keeper Joaquim Leal press Lisbon catalogue @studio.nova

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Tonight’s screening

visual storyteller · Lisbon

Poster still one

Static Garden

Sample · 16mm · 18 min

A greenhouse on the edge of a city fills with television snow. Nobody waters it.

Short · Experimental
Poster still two

Second Shift

Sample · Super 8 · 27 min

Night cleaners in a museum rearrange the sculptures when nobody is looking.

Feature · Fiction
Poster still three

Halation

Sample · Digital · 11 min

A love letter to the glow that leaks around bright lights on old stock.

Short · Essay
Poster still four

Blue Leader

Sample · 35mm · 9 min

Four minutes of countdown leader, then something unexpected on frame 4800.

Short · Found

Pull your own print

Name a film, pick two inks and pull. Drag the poster to knock the magenta plate out of register. The best mistakes happen here.

Joaquim Leal

Archive keeper and printer

Joaquim Leal keeps this archive from a small press room in Lisbon. They love the smell of wet ink and the moment a bad registration turns into a good idea.

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