This work is specifically based on the idea that B-films, horror and science fiction films, especiallly those made in the fifties, are profoundly voicing the fears felt in their time. Science-fiction and horror films are extreme enlargements of all the fears felt about the development of science and every form of change and progress in society. We live in a society that is dominated by fear, be it terrorism, disease or immigration. Exaggerating the fears will put them into perspective and will make the observer more aware of them. I make posters that are inspired by the posters of b-films and video work that uses footage taken directly from those films in combination with my own footage. The composition is derived from classical painting and still contains the element of camp that is connected to the b-film.
When you look at these films and their posters now they seem very dated and ridiculous. They have an enormous camp factor because many of their fears seemed so profoundly silly. In my posters I wanted to put the fears we have today into perspective. I wanted to show how they would look if they'd aged sixty years. I wanted to use humour to make people consider what it is they fear and why.