movie mojo: hand-painted posters from ghana

going on at the chicago cultural center, this exhibit is the perfect combination of monsters, movies, and art for skullbrainers.

movie mojo: hand-painted posters from ghana

In the 1980s, Ghanaian itinerant cinema entrepreneurs traveled from village to village utilizing hand-painted movie posters to advertise their wares. Painted on flour sacks by a wide variety of artists, these posters displayed the wild imagination these movies inspired. Posters advertising West African films often expressed the changing relationship of West Africans to Christianity and indigenous religions. Unique interpretations of classic Bollywood, Hollywood, and Kung Fu films, including Godzilla and 7th Voyage of Sinbad, are also on display.

"singbad"

you have to see the half-goat-eaten "big trouble in little china" poster on display. it's classic! they've even set up a mock-theater that loops samples from some of their original horror films.

they will also be playing real monster movies (for free!) in conjunction with this exhibit in the claudia cassidy theater (located inside the cultural center):

• 7th voyage of sinbad (1958)
  friday, august 5, 6:30 pm
  
• bram stoker’s dracula (1992)
  friday, august 12, 6:30 pm
  
• king kong vs. godzilla (1962)
  friday, august 19, 6:30 pm

I'm a huge slacker, I swear we will go to this at some point!