Das Abonnement poster pastiche

In 1967, three years before going on the run with the other Red Army Faction founding members, Gudrun Ensslin worked on an experimental short film 'Das Abonnement' or 'The Subscription' about the power of the media and abuse of that power, rooted in the same leftist movements as the RAF. I took the poster for Das Abonnement and created a pastiche of it, replacing the photos and text, adapting it to be instead about the RAF, as if sardonically advertising and promoting them. Rather than propagating their ideology, it highlights the events within the group from a narrative perspective. The photographs used show famous critical points in that narrative; the initial trial of Baader and Ensslin in 1968, Meinhof before her involvement, Baader's mugshot, Meinhof's wanted poster, Meins' eventually fatal hunger strike, Meinhof in prison, and the bodies of Meinhof and Baader following their deaths in prison. I also changed the text from 'The Subscription' to 'The Resistance' and replaced the names and 'film' with 'movement'.

THE ORIGINAL POSTER

THE PASTICHE

I was originally going to use this photograph of an x-ray of Ulrike Meinhof's brain, but I thought it looked slightly out of place and I preferred the wanted poster