Catching Feelings

Written and directed by Kagiso Lediga. Set in a chic and middle class Johannesburg, this 2017 South african Netflix movie is a tale of how life, love and art intersect in uncontrollable ways. Catching Feelings follows a jaded academic Kagiso Lediga) and his journalist wife (Pearl Thusi), who have their lives turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer unexpectedly moves into their urban Johannesburg home with them.

The brief for this project required the developing of an animated intro sequence of Max's (Kagiso Lediga) fictional medieval story, as he narrates the story to his university students.

LA FILM FESTIVAL

Having been accepted into the LA Film Festival in 2017, a more contemporary movie poster was commissioned to represent the film.

The poster style is reminiscent to Max's (Kagiso Lediga) occupation as a Wits Univesity English leacturer and author. The poster artwork serves as an extension to Max's fictional story narrated by him as the movie begins. The art style could be closely linked to the German woodcut technique which gained popularity in the later half of the 15th century.

The comercialy used poster art was later comissioned by the film company. With a request to create something that captured the feel of the Johannesburg-set dark comedy.