Andrew Downing
Silents, 2009
“Silents” is a recording of Andrew Downing’s compositions for two silent era films, Impossible Voyage and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Illustrations were mainly inspired by the German expressionist style of the second film and, in fact, the figures were traced directly from the film stills. The limited colour palette and the textured paper on which the sleeve was printed adds to the old-world quality of the project.