Je Tu Il Elle movie poster for NonStop Entertainment

Je Tu Il Elle is Chantal Akerman’s first feature film, shot when she was 24. Akerman herself plays a young woman who leaves her apartment and goes on a journey that takes her on lonely adventures with a truck driver and a former girlfriend. The film allegedly features the first-ever explicit sex scene between two women.

Malmsten Hellberg designed the two-sided poster, an assignment for quality film distributor NonStop Entertainment in their series of films by female directors that finally get a theatrical release in Sweden. The main typeface is Adelphe (a neologism meaning “sibling”, French used to only have the gender-specific equivalents of “sister” and “brother”) by Eugénie Bidaut. It includes experimental glyphs for masculine and feminine endings.