Sebastian Pardo
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“Apple Changed the Whole Landscape of How You Market a Product”: Sebastian Pardo on Crafting Graphic Design for The Brutalist
In late October, A24 dropped a teaser for their highly anticipated The Brutalist, where glimpses of Brady Corbet’s epic flash by as credits and review pullquotes horizontally crawl across the screen like the VistaVision-format celluloid that ran through the camera to capture the picture. It’s a sharp piece of trailer design that formally evokes the experience of the film as much as it serves as a piece of marketing. The design of the scroll also summons the Bauhaus stylings that inspire the architecture of The Brutalist’s subject, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), highlighting the words on screen around evocations of the […]
by Alex Lei on Dec 17, 2024 -
MEMORY
“You go see a movie,” says Riel Roch-Decter, “and there are 20 production companies listed at the head of the film. And none of those names mean anything.” Roch-Decter and fellow producer Sebastian Pardo are the heads of one new Los Angeles production company, and its name — MEMORY — is a quiet rebuke to the widget-making mentality that can creep into all but the most focused of moviemaking outfits. Indeed, in MEMORY’s early days, Roch-Decter and Pardo are producing bold films sharing a certain ineffable quality that lodges in your cranium. “We want to make films containing ideas that […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 25, 2016
