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Annie Atkins

presents Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking

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Mar 28, 2020 7:00 PM

Film/Video Theater

Please note: In light of developments surrounding COVID-19, this event has been postponed and a new date may be announced soon. Tickets that have already been purchased will be honored if a date is rescheduled. Should you prefer a refund please call (614) 292-3535, between the hours of 10 AM–4 PM.

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Maps, invitations, personal letters, and train tickets may not catch a viewer’s eye the way costumes, makeup, and special effects do, yet they serve an equally vital role in adding authenticity to the fictional world of a film.

Based in Ireland, Annie Atkins has contributed graphic design and props to Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Isle of Dogs (2018), Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies (2015), Todd Haynes’s Wonderstruck (2017), and the Laika film The Boxtrolls (2014). Atkins will give us a guided tour of the design elements she has contributed to these films and more as showcased in her engaging new book Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking (Phaidon).

Join us for a free screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel featuring more of Atkins’s work.

"Annie makes the unreal seem hyperreal, and the real more supremely alive and utterly magical."

JEFF GOLDBLUM

Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps, courtesy Phaidon

Annie Atkins, photo courtesy Annie Atkins/Phaidon

Annie Atkins, cinema tickets, 1 x 2 in., from Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes, 2017). Photo: Flora Fricker, courtesy of Amazon Content Services LLC.

Josh Holtsclaw and Annie Atkins, sketches of box labels, 11½ x 8 in., from The Boxtrolls (Laika; Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, 2014). Image reproduced by permission of Laika LLC © 2012 Laika, all rights reserved.

Annie Atkins, street poster: Cholera!, 10½ x 8 in., Grand Guignol theater frontage from Penny Dreadful (Showtime Networks, 2014). Photo: Flora Fricker, courtesy of Showtime Networks Inc.

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