In 2012, I got the honor to make the poster for Uppsala International Short Film Festival. I've been doing the trailers for this festival, but this was my first attempt at the official festival poster. It was used in posters and flyers in various sizes, billboards, catalogue, t-shirts, and more. 

Uppsala is filled with jackdaws, and when winning the official prize at the festival, 'Uppsala Grand Prix', you receive a bronze statuette called 'Uppsala Film Jackdaw'. It was therefore a quite easy choice to include these birds somehow, and I finally decided to make a silhouette of a jackdaw head, built up with small jackdaws. The white pattern in the background is a city map of Uppsala. 

I sneaked in three tiny film references in the poster, just for fun. No one actually noticed them, until I hinted about them. (see three close-ups below)

Obviously inspired by the intro titles for 'Enter the Void' (2009, Gaspar Noé). This is my take on Tom Kan's beautiful and genius typography work, and this is of course not close to the quality of the original. 

Music by Hästoperan.