FIVE ELEMENT NINJA African marketing
This amazingness from the mobile “cinemas” of Ghana, Africa is on eBay right now, for a steal, too!
Plenty more goodness here, as well!
Tags: Five Element Ninjas, Ghana movie posters
African movie posters
Some of the ninja-centric paintings from Ghana ‘movie theaters’ that were on display at last year’s Movie Mojo shows at Chicago gallery Primitive:
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Posted in Art and Advertising and Film and TV March 22, 2012 at 1:12 am. Add a comment
Ghana Ninja-rama on eBay!
This amazingness is on eBay right now:
Ghana, West Africa – 1980s. Quasi-legal ‘mobile cinemas’ showed exploitation films on VHS around third-world villages, promoted by off-model movie posters painted by local artists. Luckily for the rest of the world, these miracles of advertising art survived and are circulating galleries, museums and collectors markets.
Check out a bunch here, here and here.
There’s a great book on these ultra-crude but endlessly fascinating hand-painted posters called Extreme Canvas, and martial arts exploitation films are well represented.
Tags: AMERICAN NINJA, Ghana movie posters
