'The strangers colors of Vranckx' Exhibition

Posters of pure terror!

Gilles Vranckx is a Belgian artist trained in graphic design, animation, comics and illustration. After finishing his studies he worked in the world of advertising, which he ended up hating. His luck changed when he met the filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, who were looking for illustrators who could work in a vintage style to design the poster for their first film, Amer (2009).

The positive reception of the film and its poster led him to work for the most renowned distributors of physical films in the world - Mondo Macabro, Arrow Video, Cult Epics, Wicked Vision, Extralucid Films… - creating posters and covers for collector's editions of films by David Lynch, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, Jörg Buttgereit or Clive Barker… And he has continued to collaborate with Forzani and Cattet, for whom he created the posters for their next two films, The Strange Color of Corpse Feathers (2013) and Let the Corpses Be Bronzed (2017).

Vranckx, who also works as a programmer for the Offscreen festival in Brussels, has exhibited his work in cities around the world, from Ljubljana to New York. Showing his work at Sitges has a special meaning for him, as it was here that Amer (the film that launched his career as a poster designer) received the Nuevas Visiones award for best film.