Directed by Jordan Peele / Screenplay by Jordan Peele

American actor and comedian Jordan Peele established himself as a formidable new filmmaking talent with his directorial debut, 2017’s strikingly original psychological horror movie Get Out. His next picture, 2019’s Us, unpacked and expanded on Get Out’s mordant commentary on racism in general, and America’s entrenched social divides in particular. For his third film as director, Peele broadened his canvas to create a wildly ambitious fusion of styles, introducing imagery and ideas more closely associated with the fantasy and science fiction genres, citing among his inspirations King Kong (1933), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Jurassic Park (1993). The result is a bracingly bizarre hybrid: a kind of science-fiction-comedy-horror-western, exploring big ideas about man’s exploitative relationship with the natural world, about repressed feelings, about our compulsive need for spectacle and sensation, and about the very processes of filmmaking. The story concerns an alien manifestation in the skies above a remote Californian ranch, where the Haywood family trains horses for film productions. While the farm’s horse-wrangling siblings Em (Keke Palmer) and OJ (Daniel Kaluuya, reunited with Peele after his breakout performance in Get Out) set about trying to capture and sell photographic evidence of their unidentified flying visitors, a more elaborate attempt to cash in on the phenomenon is devised by Jupe (Steven Yeun), a former child actor who runs a nearby amusement park and is happy to exploit anything, including his own childhood trauma, for money. What ensues is unexpected, fantastical, violent and darkly humorous in equal measure.

Framed Dimensions: 330mm x 410mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.