Women in dunes

Woman in the Dunes is a novel by Kōbō Abe and a film based on the novel directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The novel was published in 1962 and the film was released in 1964. Kōbō Abe also wrote the screenplay for the film version.



The imagery of movie is very graphical so I tried same with the poster too. Whenever I do a film poster I tried to remember the first visual that comes into my mind that captures me when I was watching that movie, the scene where I find different layers of meaning. Then I tried to represent it in most simplified way. I usually like very less elements in posters but still with layers of meaning . I am always in search of that one image that can represent the whole movie. I want my posters to be incomplete for those who hasn't seen the movie. They are complete when the person sees the movie, then again comes and looks at poster.
Here I am showing an imagery from the movie where the women is naked and her body is covered with sand grain.The imagery represent both the women and the desert where the man find himself lost . I used the charcoal texture to bring the sand texture in her body. The dominant tone of film is black which I wanted to maintain in the poster too.