Big Movie Monsters

Symbols for collective fear.

category
infographic

client
self initiated

mockup of Movie Monsters poster featuring Godzilla, Cloverfield and Ghostbusters
enlargement of Movie Monsters poster featuring star wars, lord of the rings, jurassic park
image of Cloverfield silhouette from Cloverfield 2008 movie with double exposure of september 11 attacks
image of Tripod silhouette from War of the Worlds 2005 movie with double exposure of a slave ship
image of Godzilla silhouette from Godzilla 2014 movie with double exposure of atom bomb
image of Stay Puft Marshmallow Man silhouette from Ghostbusters movie with double exposure of dark forest path

big, bigger, biggest

Monsters have captured our imagination for as long as we exist and the movie industry has responded by making them bigger and more powerful. But how big are these monsters in relation to each other? That question started this self-initiated work. During my research, I discovered that a lot of monsters symbolized a specific fear within a society. For example, in Japan Godzilla symbolizes the fear of atomic bombs, which it experienced from up close.
I translated the collective fears into images and combined it with the silhouette of the monster. This creates a broken image that reflects the destructive forces of the monster and the fear that it represents.