During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...

“They’re not just film posters – they’re 2m-high, one-off, original oil paintings,” says Karun Thakar, the collector and curator behind African Gaze, an exhibition showcasing film ...

as well as West African films. To attract viewers, the video clubs needed to advertise their offerings. But they did not have the original movie posters, or the means to print alternatives – the ...

When Frank Armah began painting posters for Ghanaian movie theaters in the mid-1980s, he was given a clear mandate: Sell as many tickets as possible. If the movie was gory, the poster should be ...

CNN explores the places, the people and the passions unique to this African nation. How would you design a movie poster for a Hollywood blockbuster you’d never seen, filled with characters you ...

We’ve previously expressed our love for the hand-painted mobile cinema posters of Ghana, many of which took extreme creative liberties with films’ plots. For example, who knew that Cujo was an ...

But necessity is the mother of invention, a truism that, in Ghana, resulted in some of the most inventive movie posters ever. Staring in the 1980s, in remote Ghanaian villages, films circulated ...

In Ghana, dozens of artists have made their mark creating hand-painted movie posters that blend exaggerated horror with slapstick comedy. This unique art form began in the 1980s during Ghana's ...

Jasper, a veteran movie poster designer, was finishing up one ... From the late 1970s to the 1990s, Ghana developed a tradition of advertising films with vibrant hand-painted posters.