{"id":4246,"date":"2015-08-12T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:11:43","slug":"madani-bendjellals-empty-movie-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/madani-bendjellals-empty-movie-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Madani Bendjellal&#8217;s Empty Movie Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French art director Madani Bendjellal plays with our perception of familiar movies by stripping iconic movie posters of all identifiable features: the result are affecting, soothing images that play along a different kind of soundtrack. The images are also an exercise in minimalist presentation: once key credits and key imagery is removed, what remains are blurred genre boundaries and a strangely comforting visual reductionism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emptyfilmposters-01.jpg?resize=600%2C848\" alt=\"emptyfilmposters-01\" width=\"600\" height=\"848\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/emptyfilmposters-07.jpg?resize=600%2C848\" alt=\"emptyfilmposters-07\" width=\"600\" height=\"848\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4250\" 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