6/29/2023 0 Comments Wild at heart deadly prey gallery![]() Of the 600 posters in the Deadly Prey Gallery, Chankin indicated that at least 200 were painted by an artist known as Mr. The movement began with only a handful of artists, maybe 10-15, which expanded to 50-70 during the heyday of the roadshow enterprise, with a few artists making a name for themselves above the rest of the crop. While some had access to acrylics and oil paints, most used house paint to turn a couple of sewn-together flour sacks into the textural delights which invited Ghanaians to check out Commando, Cujo, or Marked for Death. The artists used whatever was on hand to create their pieces. Hence the need for giant, colorful, attention-grabbing posters. It’s when multiple video companies began popping up that marketing came into play, and the company with the most explosive advertisements would draw the biggest crowd. They could simply go see whatever was playing or stay home. At first, the limited exhibition meant that potential audiences had no choice in what films to watch. Action, horror, melodrama, and physical comedy would do the trick ( House Party, for example, has spawned many posters). Since these tours relied entirely upon getting butts in seats, there was little room for tonal variety. Most of the films on display were either locally produced, or were whatever could be intercepted from the Hollywood, Bollywood, or Hong Kong markets. Instead, traveling video companies would pack a generator and a VCR into a van, and take a makeshift roadshow from village to village. In the 1980s you’d be hard-pressed to find a movie theater in Ghana. The Deadly Prey Gallery features some 600 posters at any given time, many of which are sold, as Chankin claims, to fund the addiction of obtaining even more.Ĭhankin’s quest for more posters fostered an education in Ghanaian film exhibition. What started as a collection of fifteen items soon ballooned to much bigger proportions. on a “buy now, pay later” agreement, which any collector would be crazy to pass up. The first few came from eBay, the next few from a person closer to the source - who Chankin found deep in the annals of a Google search, and who was willing to ship posters to the U.S. ![]() ![]() The Deadly Prey Gallery began not as an exhibit, but as a personal quest for Chankin, whose insatiable desires as a collector led to the founding of the aptly-named Odd Obsession Movies, a video store specializing in genre cinema, which he opened using his own personal stash.Īfter discovering the “extremely intricate and brutal” posters in a book titled Ghanavision: Hand-Painted Film Posters from Ghana, Chankin sought to obtain some pieces of his own. ![]() A visual respite from our current world of cookie-cutter/floating head film advertisements, made in what feels like minutes on the most basic of photoshop software, these eye-popping delights are like nothing you’ve ever seen, and Chankin wants to see them all. Fellow bad movie lovers, gather round my brethren for here there be a classic! This is the story of evil Colonal Hogan who is utilising kidnapped innocent civilians as big game in order to train his bloodthirsty group of mercenaries.Brian Chankin curates the Deadly Prey Gallery, a collection of hand-painted movie posters from the world of Ghanaian cinema, a selection of which will be on display at PhilaMOCA during the Cinedelphia Film Festival. ![]()
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