A memorial tribute to Tony Stella, a Berlin-based poster artist who died unexpectedly in May 2026 at age 45. Though largely anonymous outside cinephile circles, Stella was highly respected for his influential work creating hundreds of film posters that reinterpreted classic art-house cinema from the 1950s-70s with refined aesthetic sensibility. His designs, initially created for a Berlin cinema club in the 1990s, gained broader recognition through social media engagement with international film enthusiasts. In 2018, Stella partnered with designer Emmanuel Sfez (Midnight Marauder) to establish Alphaville, a boutique poster design agency. The retrospective chronicles Stella’s artistic evolution, his collaborations with distributors like Kino Lorber on projects including Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Bacurau, and his significant influence on contemporary cinema graphics, drawing from 1950s-70s poster masters and his earlier immersion in New York hip-hop and graffiti culture.
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