Post No Bills (1992 film)

Post No Bills is a documentary film on satirical political poster artist Robbie Conal directed by Clay Walker. The movie's title comes from lettering found on many construction walls and other city surfaces, indicating that advertisements or handbills are not to be placed on the surface.

For other uses, see Post No Bills.
Post No Bills
Directed byClay Walker
Produced byClay Walker
Marianne Dissard
CinematographyClay Walker
Edited byClay Walker
Distributed byClay Walker
Plan B Productions
Release date
November 9, 1992
Running time
57 min.
LanguageEnglish

Production

This documentary was shot on 16mm black and white filmstock in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco from 1990 to 1992. At the center of the film is a poster that featured LAPD Chief Daryl Gates superimposed on a NRA shooting target with the text "Casual Drug Users Ought To Be Taken Out and Beaten."[1] The controversial posters were glued around the city of Los Angeles in March 1991 shortly after the beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers.[2] Post No Bills documents a two year period of Conal's painting and postering exploits[3] capturing his rapid rise from anonymous satirist to media celebrity[4][5] and contains interviews with some of the subjects of Conal's artwork including Daryl Gates and Oliver North.[6]

Exhibition and Awards

Post No Bills was first publicly exhibited in October 1992 at the Cork Film Festival where it received a certificate of Merit. Several days later the Chicago International Film Festival awarded Post No Bills the Silver Hugo[7] for feature-length documentary.

Post No Bills was the first completed broadcast hour ITVS project and was first broadcast on PBS in September 1993.[8]

"Post No Bills" was added to the Library of Congress Catalog in 1992.[9]

References
  1. Philips, Chuck (10 April 1991). "Drawing a Bead on Gates : Artist Launches Poster Blitz in Satirical Attack on Police Chief". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  2. "History in Posters". LA Weekly. 24 April 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  3. Graham, Chuck (21 Jan 1993). "'Post No Bills' satirst works for laughs, too". Tucson Citizen: C8.
  4. Ringel, Eleanor (10 May 1993). "'Bills' documents rise of political artist". The Atlanta Journal Constitution: C3.
  5. Thomas, Kevin (26 June 1993). "Today at the AFI". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  6. Parker, Dave (1 July 1993). "Guerilla in the City". Film Threat Video Guide (7): 62–63.
  7. "Guerrilla artist Robbie Conal's posters and paintings provide scathing cultural commentary". ITVS. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  8. "Post No Bills". ITVS. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  9. "Post No BIlls". Library of Congress Catalog. Retrieved 1 September 2020.


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