Carmen Martín de la Rosa

Creative & Art direction, Graphic design, Visual poetry

Cold War
Art Direction, Graphic Design & Conceptualization

Credits for the film Cold War, directed by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski in 2018. Set during the Cold War, it follows the tumultuous relationship between Wiktor, a musician, and Zula, a singer, from 1950s communist Poland to the bohemian Paris of the 1960s. Their passionate and destructive love is constantly affected by the political and social circumstances of the time.

The conceptual proposal for the credit titles is synthesized in the phrase "Dissonant Interval." An interval is the distance between two musical notes, which can be categorized as consonant or dissonant; the latter is defined by the inherent tension within an interval involving a clash between two or more notes. Zula and Wiktor’s relationship is shaped by distance.
Throughout the film, various situations cause this love story to break apart because of that distance, cooling their relationship and creating tension between Zula and Wiktor. Cold War is filled with tensions—between the communist and capitalist blocs, as well as those generated within their own relationship due to the evolution of both of their characters.

➻ w/ Nil Catala (@nilcatalaa), Víctor García (@victor__archive), Yago López (@yaggerlp), Albert Subarroca (@albertsubarroca)